<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pulicate Lake (Chennai)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A rollicking trip on a boat<br>we had through the Pulicate Lake.<br>The nests cast all along the creek<br>warn the boat-men take care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men, women and children<br>dip in and come up the water, <br>with pulsating trout in their palms<br>and dropp into the slinging bags and creels.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The weak and the old in loin-cloths<br>are holding the fishing-rods, <br>and peering at the wood pulp with eager<br>to lug up the unwary dab.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some dogs are emerging out in knee-deep water, <br>with struggling dace between the teeth.<br>We looked at the scene with pity<br>though we had fried fish to crunch at lunch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh dear! They're stone statues not birds<br>waiting to pick up the misled fish! <br>The scent of coastal stuff from my friends<br>drove away the shrimps from our way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! Some baskets and towels too swirl around<br>to catch the lusty wealth of the sea.<br>Never these fish roaming in the lake<br>could go back to the estuary.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rajendran+Muthiah">Rajendran Muthiah</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=480645" data-title="Pulicate Lake (Chennai) de Rajendran Muthiah" data-description="A rollicking trip on a boat we had through the Pulicate Lake. The nests cast all along the creek warn the boat-men take care. Men, women and children dip in and come up the water, with pulsating trout in their palms and dropp into the slinging b..."></div> </div> </div>

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