Happy "Independence" Day

Mafazah Sharafuddin

August 15, 2016

As the flag unfurls amidst

The birds in the sky,

Our Indian blood makes our

"Patriotism" run high.

We walk around with flags,

And shout greetings on the street,

Not noticing the blood that

Runs crimson at our feet.

When equality has become more

Of a slogan than a practice,

We pretend to be deaf to all

Inequality that surrounds us.

Happy Independence Day, India,

You're free from outer rule,

Now only crippled by the atrocity

That your people have fueled.

When you say a word enough,

It loses all meaning,

Independence, freedom, atrocity,

Sinning, equality, demeaning,

Now they're all just words,

Without the power they did hold,

So let's be the voice that

Has meaning to uphold.

Mafazah Sharafuddin is a Class X student at a private school in Mangaluru.

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Mafazah there is a small changes in your poem... Any way good writings. Amazing.

Language and presentation excellent.

Good poem Mafazoooo. You are a little staarrrr!

Wonderful. Keep it up.

Beautifully written. Nice flow. An honest attempt to express yourself. Congratulations

Wonderfully written!

Mafaza has a way with words.Simply Amazing !!

How nice! how meaningful!
This can be parallel national anthem for oppressed and suppressed Indians!

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TO THE EMOJI FAIR

Muhammad Ayaan Yusuf Kolnad

July 23,2020

It’s day to the emoji fair

Where the fun begins with happiness

It’s day to the emoji fair

Where the fun ends with happiness

The water is waiting for you to come

To make you enjoy a lot,

The smooth – awesome slide is cool

That makes this park wonderful.

Be ready to laugh

Because the clown will

Tickle your funny – bone

Get ready to have fun

The funny coasters are here.

It’s a day to the emoji fair

It’s time to say goodbye

To the … emoji fair.

COME BACK AGAIN

Muhammad Ayaan Yusuf Kolnad is a Grade 7 student at Sudhana Residential School, Puttur

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My Passport

P A Hameed Padubidri

January 17,2020

Make a note!

I am an Indian

I own my name with a title

That’s embedded even before my birth and

Still rooted in my soil that always mixes with my flesh and blood

My father, his father and all my forefathers,

Got churned in this soil although their souls are in the purgatory

I grew... and the peepal plant I saw in my childhood also grew with me

Stones and grasses I walked on became a walkway

The sky and earth I used to play and sleep amid

The sea with sounding waves, and hills and mountains with echoes

Are the same

Watching the pigeons and other birds sitting over the roof of my home;

I feel no difference

Then why I need to show my blood is red

And that’s still flowing in my body?

I am still alive... but,

Oblivious why my passport is still feeling birth pangs of my title

At this point in time!

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