EROSION
Esiobu Chisikamdi Vivian 2002 (Anambra state)
Erosion
Child.....
Hei Erosion! it's our playground .
How did you infiltrate in here?
Never imagined to meet you here .
Hei! what have you done with
my playground?
Why swallow what's not yours?
You've succeed in claiming what's mine.
Leaving my friends and I to our fate .
Where are we to play?
Why take what's ours?
All read and no play makes jack a dull boy.
I wouldn't want to be a dull child .
Why want to exchange your fate with mine?
Please can you give that back?
while am still being nice.
Luckily enough, we weren't here
when you stole our playground .
Who knows what
would have become of us ?
With your silly and uncalculative mindset,
you wouldn't hesitate to swallow us all.
You've claimed many lands,
Aren't you satisfied?
How greedy you're..
Here you're claiming mine,
I won't let you have it.
It's time to report to the Government.
Even if you're greater than I,
am sure you can't be greater
than the government.
It will be up to them to decide
If that playground be returned to me
Or remain yours.
Erosion...
Who says you own here?
I own every empty land,
I visit anywhere I desire
I can still snatch from the
Government
If only am willing.
If the Government doesn't behave
I swallow them too .
No one is greater than I'm
If not the vegetation and forest.
Still any need to invite the government?
About this poem
The poem Erosion is a childhood poem which reads of the supremacy of nature over man.
Font size:
Written on October 15, 2023
Submitted by kamdiesiobu on October 15, 2023
- 1:29 min read
- 6 Views
Quick analysis:
Scheme | Abcddxce fxxx xbfxx dcxxxx xgxfx hxihgxe Adxixhxxxxxh |
---|---|
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,355 |
Words | 281 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 5, 6, 5, 7, 12 |
Translation
Find a translation for this poem in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"EROSION" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 27 Apr. 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem/171379/erosion>.
Discuss the poem EROSION with the community...
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In