The Proclamation of the Hills

On 20^th February, we celebrated the World Day of Social Justice. Social Justice has been a running theme in this blog. Though late, again, all is not lost. My conscience will now rest after writing a poem about the day.

This poem takes a poetry form known as “the Bob and Wheel”. It consists of 2 separate but related stanzas. The second stanza has the first line termed the ‘Bob’, with the next four lines termed the ‘Wheels’. The ‘Bob’ rhymes with the second and fourth ‘Wheels’. The other two wheels rhyme with each other.

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Let this Proclamation of Our Common Intents

reveal our Mutual Accord to the service of man

to remind us of our chequered histories of tyrannies

that led to early deaths and perpetual human want

which, if we could foresee, early enough in time

                                                       could have prevented the loss we bear

                                                       on our visages, for us the savages

                                                       yet, such a past to examine we dare

                                                       though they suppurate under bandages

                                                       the scar of history we all share