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Earth!
If you make bricks and put one over the other,
It makes a home.
But if you dig it out with a crowbar and hoe
A drawing well shall take shape.
For the dwelling upon earth to survive,
Doesn’t it need the welling below last?
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Like a spring of life,
Like an inexhaustible fountain, here lies the well.
These well-walls shall protect
Even the oldies over the hill, like eyelids;
They shall hang around like your pet puppies.
The well might be an inheritance through generations
Maybe it was the “Pranahita” (Life support) of ancestors
Maybe, even their Dairy cow!
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Before they hardly dug out ten basketful of earth
Legend says, founts of springs streamed surreptitiously
From obscure occult subterranean pathways into this well,
And quenched the thirst of the tongue and the body.
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How come then, it has reduced now to an empty pot?
Assumed the look of an ethereal form?
Why is it drying up like dying wood?
How this ever moist well has acquired that powdery look?
This is the lone well around that gave a swig to the morsel-fed.
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Perhaps, we have to squeeze this well
Just as hunger and love, would do our grief.
Or, perhaps we have to deepen it by few feet more
Taking a hoe and pickaxe into our hands;
And await with thrilling silence
For those bubbling streamlets make their presence in this well?
How shall our thirst be quenched, otherwise,
If this industrious well doesn’t exist
Like a mine of coal or a factory of fuel?
How can we harvest the fruits of our life?
This well is not just a chronicle of the past,
Or, a pragmatism for the present,
It is the Carta of our future.
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Breaking the block however fathomless deep it might lie
Till it yields to sneaking up founts … is our philosophy
No matter we encounter a rock or a hillock
Untill water blows out,
Until we reap the stakes of our sweat
To strive with striving strife … is our motto.
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[From Doodi MEDa (Cotton Mansion)]

Naleswaram Sankaram.
(Note: Pranahita… is a tributary of river Godavari)
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