Listed below is an eloquent sonnet penned by one of the residents -its true that even pain can tingle one's literary glands....
Sunday Musings
We Indians are a special breed and Greenage is no exception
We have one set of rules for others and one for our own kith and kin!!
The surroundings must be green and the pool must be clean
But wear the right swim wear and shower......A pipe dream!!
Sweep,scrub polish your own interior palace
Bend over and toss the dirt into the first floor terrace !
Walk the dog and clean the poop,is only for America
Here it's free for all ...after all this is Apna India!
Here top floors can litter and terrace owners feel bitter
Here noise can cross the sound grid,while neighbours crib!
Here we can do what we want and our 'Macho ness' flaunt
If the puny guards tell us where not to park, or dare to ask!
Here we can spend thousands on any special date
But cannot (will not ) buy green packets to put the wet waste!
Here kids can throw leaves into the pool,while chatting parents look cool
Here people can cut the queue at the veggie shop, and use the loud speaker non stop!
Obama declared diwali a holiday...that was oh so right.....
That we decided to burst crackers from noon to beyond midnight!
The next day we decided to try our skills at smashing and hurling
And cast an iron rod through the car in the parking!
That was not enough...we drank ourselves sick and made a show
Roughed up each other, created a shindy and exchanged a few blows!!
Wow we really reflect our education,our empathy our eliteness
I marvel at our compassion,courtesy and correctness!
We should be proud to belong to this Elite Fringe
That each day has some news to make you cringe!!
All the rules all the boundaries all the decency is reserved
For the image we wish to present when we go abroad!
Oh USA is so clean ...oh its so green ....oh it's all so ' Wah- Wah'
Our Greenage is smelly and dirty and dark and 'Blah- Blah!'
The parks are ours,the roads are ours
The pool ,the glass foyer, the polished floors,
The children,the oldies,the youth the helpers
Are all a part of our inner circle our friends our well wishers,
The benches the flowers the landscape good
They are all part of our OWN neighbourhood !!
I am not going to preach and tell you to change
That's beyond my reach and beyond my range,
But before you tell MODI (and the rest of the world) to set Things in order
Learn to obey the rules and respect each other, within the Greenage border!
Sunday Musings
We Indians are a special breed and Greenage is no exception
We have one set of rules for others and one for our own kith and kin!!
The surroundings must be green and the pool must be clean
But wear the right swim wear and shower......A pipe dream!!
Sweep,scrub polish your own interior palace
Bend over and toss the dirt into the first floor terrace !
Walk the dog and clean the poop,is only for America
Here it's free for all ...after all this is Apna India!
Here top floors can litter and terrace owners feel bitter
Here noise can cross the sound grid,while neighbours crib!
Here we can do what we want and our 'Macho ness' flaunt
If the puny guards tell us where not to park, or dare to ask!
Here we can spend thousands on any special date
But cannot (will not ) buy green packets to put the wet waste!
Here kids can throw leaves into the pool,while chatting parents look cool
Here people can cut the queue at the veggie shop, and use the loud speaker non stop!
Obama declared diwali a holiday...that was oh so right.....
That we decided to burst crackers from noon to beyond midnight!
The next day we decided to try our skills at smashing and hurling
And cast an iron rod through the car in the parking!
That was not enough...we drank ourselves sick and made a show
Roughed up each other, created a shindy and exchanged a few blows!!
Wow we really reflect our education,our empathy our eliteness
I marvel at our compassion,courtesy and correctness!
We should be proud to belong to this Elite Fringe
That each day has some news to make you cringe!!
All the rules all the boundaries all the decency is reserved
For the image we wish to present when we go abroad!
Oh USA is so clean ...oh its so green ....oh it's all so ' Wah- Wah'
Our Greenage is smelly and dirty and dark and 'Blah- Blah!'
The parks are ours,the roads are ours
The pool ,the glass foyer, the polished floors,
The children,the oldies,the youth the helpers
Are all a part of our inner circle our friends our well wishers,
The benches the flowers the landscape good
They are all part of our OWN neighbourhood !!
I am not going to preach and tell you to change
That's beyond my reach and beyond my range,
But before you tell MODI (and the rest of the world) to set Things in order
Learn to obey the rules and respect each other, within the Greenage border!
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