An inexpensive dream


This is a poem about a lonely poor street child who dreams each night of a nice home with mother nd siblings.

My head held to the dark skies

and I see not the stars swing a rope

for would it not today dance to me in disguise

and would it not let me sing in hope,

the darkness to whom I befriend, much than the blue day of despise

and would it not as yesterday, play to my desire,

and bring for me in my tired eyes, a gleeful surprise.

To my fancy, I wonder away, lying below the twinkled bay

Where, I have a house, and oh yes it is mine,

and I live here, and I live my own pleasured way.

Where the tiles above me, on the ceiling shine,

the woods through the windows, bring for me the chimes.

Where the comfort of the cozy fire, and the bread of the privileged dine

bring no contest, and bring no labor.

I lay my head on my mothers lap, to her calm comfort,

as her hands curl my qualms away,

and the fire warms from the hearth.

Where the siblings sport the joys through the day

and this togetherness is a bliss,

where the sleep of the tired eyes, spills the fun, this night

over the smiling white moonlight.

For away from this darkness, there would be the day,

Where the streets would be again,

as lone, and the struggles again, and where life would be a again,

where, life’s about pennies, that counts in pay.

and my fate deceit, and fate feign.

And each day, in hope I wait

for the darkness, after the sun and after the strive,

where my mother waits for a hug to gather me in to her hive,

and the moon in crescent calls me in delight,

greeting me home tonight…

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Comments

This one is a beauty too…
Not just because its written for the poor child but a desire that most of have to have our own little place that we could call home…With property prices going beyond reach, its a dream for them too…

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Thanks Renu and Krishna…..Your words are my inspiration

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This poem is really really very good.

Beautifull……..There can not be a better dream.

Great

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You have very well expounded the dream you can just dream…

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a very beautiful poem.

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absolutely beautiful dude….. awesome….

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Congrats!!!!
Rightfully the poem of the day…

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The dream that you mentioned in this poem is fantastic bcoz for a moment I feel that I am poor child of that dream.

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Thanks all for the Inspiration……:)

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Ulhasji its Inspiration…
please correct it…

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hmmmmmmm………..you are right, but the word aspiration is sometimes interchanged with inspirations.

But thanks anyways………

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good one, but dream is dream for poors and when some poors convert their dreams into the reality-they become Dhiru Bhai Ambani.

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there you go bro….congrats!

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Hi ulhas,my heartily congratulation to you to win the contest with such good one poem by you.

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Congratulations…

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Not everybody is as lucky as Ambani but it is good to dream, this provides the necessary motivation.
You have very beautifully expressed the basic desire of every man - to have a solid roof over one’s head, basic security of life comes from this. Congratulatios!!

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Lovely poem must agree

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