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Poems from the Ghats | Save Mollem

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  • Welcome to poems from the ghats. We come to you from Bookworm Goa. Join in celebrating our forests through poetry...
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  • वनमहोत्सव written by Uday Narasimha Mhambre as read by Prita Sardessai | Save Mollem #savemollem | Poems for the Ghats
    Sep 28 2020

    It’s a tree talking. Lamenting the cutting of forests. Its a take on our politicians who are responsible for destroying the forests yet stand under umbrellas and plant saplings to celebrate vanamahotsav.

    वनमहोत्सव

    हांव ह्या वनांत तग मारुन आसा
    कारण म्हज्या मदेराक दर ना
    एका काळार एकमेकांक घश्टून
    उजो पेट्टाली तीं दाट रानां
    आतां काणयेतूच उरतली
    आतां हांगा वनांत
    पयलींसारको गुपाट काळोख ना
    सुर्याची किरणां आतां
    धरतरेचो उमाव घेतात
    एका झाडाची खांदी
    दुसर्‍या झाडाक तेंकना
    दाट वनांत रावपाची
    संवकळ आशिल्ली जनावरां
    आतां रानांत रावूंक भियेतात
    कोले, वाग, हत्ती
    खाण सोदूंक गावांत वतात
    सुकणीं घोंटेर बांदूक विसरल्यात
    रानांत आतां गांव वसपाक लागल्यात

    आनी गावांत
    आतां मनशांभितर नवें फॅड आयलां
    जंगलां वाटावपाचे
    झाडां रोवपाचे
    झाडां जगोवपाचे
    पावसांत सत्री हातांत घेवन
    वनमहोत्सव करपाचे

    जांणी वनां काबार केली
    म्हजे शेजारची तरणी टवटवीत
    झाडां मारुन लाकडां केली
    तांच्याच हातांत वनमहोत्सव मनयतात
    आनी आमी रानांतली झाडां
    हें सगळें मोन्यांनी पळयतात !

    उदय नरसिंह म्हांबरो


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    3 mins
  • An Inheritance of Concrete written and read by Rochelle Dsilva | Save Mollem #savemollem | Poems for the Ghats
    Aug 19 2020

    I wonder if the trees knew you were coming for them

    They have seen people like you before

    They have outlived people like you before

    Did you stand under their shade while you made your plans?

    Did you dare to call it an execution?

    You can only see as far as your greed

    Your eyes hungry for more zeroes

    You tell us it is development

    But we know it is destruction

    You tell yourselves you run the world

    Drunk on the power to make decisions

    A tree could fall on you tomorrow

    and silence you

    But we need them upright not falling

    We need more of them than us

    Don’t leave your children an inheritance of concrete

    Don’t teach them that highways are better than forests

    Don’t displace the birds and the animals and the fish

    Don’t remove what you cannot replace


    How can you do this to a sanctuary?


    What will you do with their bodies?


    - Rochelle Dsilva


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    2 mins
  • सैम राखया written and read by Tanmayee Sahakari | Save Mollem #savemollem | Poems for the Ghats
    Aug 10 2020

    सैम राखया

    अस्तंत घाट सोपलो कसो कोणाक कळूंक ना !

    मनीस सुवार्थी जायत चल्ला, 

    तेका कोणाचें पडूंक ना ! 


    काबार जालीं झाडां - पेडां,

    मेकळीं केलीं रानां !

    मोनजातीचो स्वास घुस्मटलो सुलूस लागूंक ना !

    मनीस सुवार्थी जायत चल्ला 

    तेका कोणाचें पडूंक ना ! 


    उदरगतीची हाव आमकां 

    पयशांचो माज 

    राजकारणी मांडटात डाव

    आनी सैमाचो -हास 

    सैम सोपता, मनीसूय सोंपतलो

    हें कोणाक कशें कळना ?

    मनीस सुवार्थी जायत चल्ला 

    तेका कोणाचें पडूंक ना !


    सैमाची सासाय आमचेर, 

    सैमूच आमचो आदार 

    मनशा, आतां तरी सुदार पापया ! 

    नाजाल्यार जातलो निराधार !

    सैमाच्याच गोपांत आंमी घेतलो मेकळो स्वास 

    सांबाळूया सैम आमचो, सोडून दिवया दुस्वास !


    सैम आमचो राखणो आनी तोच देंवचार ! 

    सुवार्थ दिवया सोडून आनी करया बरो विचार ! 

    सैम राखया, सैम राखया ! 

    दाखोवन दिवया आंमचो एकचार !

    मागीर तोच आमकां सांबाळटलो 

    सासणाचो, सदांकाळ ! 

    सासणाचो, सदांकाळ ! 

       - तन्मयी देविदास सहकारी 🔅🔅

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    4 mins

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