-- *Mar*Of course 🌿 — here’s an *original poem* inspired by YM Sarma’s *“The Extinction of Nature’s Poetry.”*
It captures the same emotional and philosophical essence — the tension between the mechanized world and the living song of the Earth. ------------------------------ *When the Machines Forgot to Listen* When the forests were cut into numbers, and rivers were mapped into code, the heart of the world began trembling, a silence the satellites couldn’t decode. We built our gods out of iron, our prayers out of wires and light, but the stars turned their faces away from us, ashamed of our endless night. The birds still tried to remind us, their wings still wrote verses in sky, but we were too busy counting profit to hear a cloud’s lullaby. Once, every breeze was a language, every stone held a line of the Earth — but we traded the poem of living for a dream that denied its own birth. Now I walk where the circuits are humming, and whisper the soil’s old name. A seed answers back in silence, and something inside me flames. Perhaps the world is not dying, but waiting for us to see — that the poet was never the human, but the leaf, the bird, and the sea. So I kneel among roots and remember what machines never could create: that to live is to sing with the living, and to love is to liberate. ------------------------------ ✨ *Author’s Reflection* This poem translates Sarma’s philosophy into lyric form — that *nature itself is the original poet*, and that human art loses meaning when detached from the living world. The final stanza reaffirms the hope that even amid mechanization, the act of *remembering* nature’s voice can restore beauty and balance. ------------------------------ Would you like me to write a *second companion poem* — one that imagines the *rebirth* of nature’s poetry after humanity learns to live in symbiosis again? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCJ78G6zA%3DxYb80SEAqYHqAGecSgZ3rLe3%2Bu-cQAhYAC5A%40mail.gmail.com.
