GvSparx

If people do not have their say, democracy crumbles down to aristocracy and plutocracy. When that happens freedom is just left a word on paper. And each person becomes a pot of inflammable fuel. He just needs a spark and the world will be set ablaze. Remember plutocracy ends when money finishes. Aristocracy ends when the ruler dies. Democracy is perpetual because it's people who make nation, they cannot die. If they all die, the nation dies.


Poetry is an art tough to master. It has evolved in different parts of the world with distinctive ideologies. I recall an Indian form in which every shloka had 16 maatra(similar to vowels in English). I wondered how one could write with such precision in number of maatra when poets today struggle even with the rhyming schemes. Just like India there have been poetic styles which have developed in all parts of the world.

Cinquain is form of poetry with just 5 lines. Now cinquain has been transformed and twisted by different cultures and countries to their own liking. The poem presented above is a Didactic Cinquain

• Diwali marks the triumph of good over evil.
• On Diwali, Goddess Laxmi blesses all her devotees with wealth and prosperity
  ( Money! Money!)

A poor farmer struggles to put two meals on platter for his family. An ailing mother, a complaining wife and a jobless brother compound his life. He and his brother leave their house in the morning for farming but actually go to have a drink. Hence, they are not helping their grim realities. They have bank loans asking for repayment, which they obviously can’t make. They will lose their land and home otherwise. The elections are approaching.
To save his family from becoming homeless, elder brother advices him that it’s better to commit suicide rather than dying every day waiting for your death. His crafty elder brother sees a silver line. As elections are approaching, the elder brother knows that if he suicides his family will get compensation, his loans will be waived off. So, elder brother convinces him that if you announce your suicide, you can help your family just by dying.