[572] God’s Property

Circle around the banyan ⁣⁣
Our hundred year companion⁣⁣
She cannot hide, she cannot run ⁣⁣
She keeps you cool, she helps you breathe⁣⁣
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Circle around the banyan ⁣⁣
Our hundred year companion⁣⁣
She’s a pillar built by rain ⁣⁣
while yours need earth to die in vain⁣⁣
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Circle around the banyan ⁣⁣
Our hundred year companion⁣⁣
The road can find another way⁣⁣
She has a hundred more years to stay⁣⁣

Circle around the banyan⁣
Our hundred year companion⁣
You hold death in an axe⁣
Come hold life and hold our hands⁣


NaPoWriMo Day 7 prompt – Finally, here’s today’s prompt — optional, as always. In her poem, “Front Yard Rhyme,” Cecily Parks evokes the sing-songy beats that accompany girls’ clapping games, and jump-rope and skipping rhymes. Today, we challenge you to write your own poem that emulates these songs – something to snap, clap, and jump around to.


More than 150 trees are to be cut in a nearby park, which is the only park with green shade around the area. This is a clapping game written in protest against the feeling of trees.

5 responses to “[572] God’s Property”

  1. If trees were wifi towers, they’d probably reconsider. But no, trees are only air purification portals… Humans are so missing the whole reason for existing. I love the photo and the notice on it. Lovely how you took this prompt to bring awareness to something you believe in. Thanks Rahul. Happy writing.

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