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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570056" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rats</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a toddler I grew up in my<br>Grandparents ancestral house<br>Large house with several rooms<br>Sloping red tiled roof<br>Semi dark, even during mid day <br>Located in the centre of vast estate<br>With reddish gravely soil <br>Horizontal terrain with several elevational layers <br>House encircled by tall trees of<br>Coconuts, Jackfruits, mangoes, bananas<br>Tamarind, papaya, pepper creepers<br>Such large house occupied by only<br>Four human beings<br>Myself, grandparents and a servant maid<br>House was infested with <br>Reptiles, lizards, small crawling snakes<br>Cockroaches, spiders, squirrels, frogs<br>Millipedes, centipedes, cats, kitten and rats<br>Black bats flying and clinging to ceiling, heads down<br>Best place for zoological research <br>House was surrounded by foxes, dogs, butterflies<br>Fluttering between flowers<br>Big poisonous snakes <br>Cows, goats and mongoose <br>Crows, chicken, woodcutters, owls<br>Cooing doves on red tile roofs<br>Ground filled up with <br>Dry leaves fell from trees<br>Every day when the dawn strikes<br>I could see solar rays <br>Fresh after a night sleep<br>Penetrating through tall trunks of trees<br>My grandfather used to offer prayers<br>To Sun God, standing erect<br>By folding palms facing rising sun<br>Same time, sitting in our north side verandah<br>I used to help my grandmother <br>Killing rats<br>Trapped in wooden boxes<br>My grandmother was <br>House hold totalitarian <br>She had unfathomable affection towards me<br>Rats were menace to our food grains<br>Stored in large wooden granaries<br>Clock of my grandmother’s life<br>Stopped when she was only Sixty<br>And when I was only Ten<br>Memories about her and rats killed<br>Still after six decades lingers in my mind<br>  **************<br>Last three decades I live in a pent house<br>Located on Fourteenth floor of a residential apartment<br>My tower is very close to an International Airport.<br>After retirement, I sit in my balcony <br>And watch busy aircrafts landing and taking off <br>Recently I noticed my neighbour Dr.Krish<br>Standing in his balcony holding a glass casket <br>A struggling, black creature was inside the box<br>Dr.Krish was head of zoology department<br>In University located in our city<br>Out of curiosity I asked him <br>“What is that doctor? ”<br>“A rat”<br>“Where did you get it? ”<br>“From a village in North Malabar <br>My research assistant who hails<br>From that village brought it<br>We are preparing thesis on<br>Rats, mouses and bandicoots “<br>Rat held inside could not be from my<br>Ancestral home in North Malabar<br>My old house of grandparents and tall trees were<br>Bulldozed long back for <br>Construction of luxurious resorts <br>Meant for foreigners and their currency. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">P.M.CHANDRASEKHARAN</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Chandra+sekharan">Chandra sekharan</a><div class=q>
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Grandparents ancestral house
Large house with several rooms
Sloping red tiled roof
Semi dark, even during mid day 
Located in the centre of vast estate
With reddish gravely soil 
Horizontal terrain with several elevati..."></div>
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