Thursday, May 5, 2022

Noise pollution in the city


Oh, please do read this little ditty

On the noise pollution in my city


Where the dawn chorus of birds

Is too cacophonous for words

In the garden when I'm sipping tea

Just how pesky is this buzzing bee

Chasing off a nectar-greedy butterfly

Whose wings flap ever louder in reply

How deafening the gurgling Spring sap

Coursing up tree trunks, an inverted tap


And when the gentlest breeze

Plucks yellowed leaves from trees

How noisily they skitter

And skate, and litter

Clean, smooth city streets

Where the urban heart beats

To the whisper of traffic and human enterprise

In factories and offices which make no noise!


Sahdev Singh

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