A Prologue

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A Prologue

P K Routray

A scantily clad lady

with frail, skinny body

prematurely old

having a stick in her hold

carrying  on her shoulder

probably her granddaughter,

a malnutritioned child

crying loud and wild

out of thirst and hunger

ahead she totters.

(N.B This poem has four parts dwelling on the same picture separately posted)