<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369612" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>15th AUGUST,1998 in INDIA</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My sleep got disturbed, thrice that day; <br>I could not sleep tho’ a holiday; <br>My mind was filled with thoughts unclear; <br>I got up in the morn, much earlier; <br>‘Twas India’s Independence Day! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thunder, lightning filled the night’s Sky; <br>The day much overcast did fly; <br>The Rain was just a drizzle that day; <br>Wetted the ground of mud and clay; <br>‘Twas 15th of August, a rainy day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pea-birds howled and groaned that night; <br>The Rain made them shiver with fright; <br>Though ten, it looked like six in the morn; <br>The Sun behind the clouds had gone; <br>The Sky ground-glass remained that day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The leaky tap-waters that fell, <br>Raised wavelets, ploppy-toned and swell; <br>Rain-drops on cables looked like pearls; <br>Dropped, formed again, enticing souls; <br>It looked it would rain long that day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rain-drops hanging beneath fir-twigs; <br>Glittered in the scarce light like figs; <br>The whole tree was aglow, alit; <br>A thing of beauty, don’t miss it! <br>The Sky looked like a barred-white board! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A frail, brown-skinned, bony human, <br>With sack on head, bent-back, he ran! <br>The Indian was agonizing! <br>Tho’ people keep sermonizing! <br>Fifty years after Independence! <br>What good was done for the common-man?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369612" data-title="15th AUGUST,1998 in INDIA de John Celes" data-description="My sleep got disturbed, thrice that day; I could not sleep tho’ a holiday; My mind was filled with thoughts unclear; I got up in the morn, much earlier; ‘Twas India’s Independence Day! Thunder, lightning filled the night’s Sky; The ..."></div> </div> </div>

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