Poem - 3 | July 2025

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Upside Down 

GAUTAM Hazra 

Howrah, West Bengal

 

If clouds go off to cloud-top towns,

And water flows to sea,

Can you just guess by someone's frown

What team Ram Babu'd be?

 

If today he wears green and brown,

Tomorrow red and gold,

He’s calm and sweet when sun is down,

By night, he’s brash and bold.

 

If he's the kind who wide awake

Still dreams in broad daylight,

And shops for veggies, makes no ache

No anger, no spite!

 

When someone’s built of quirks like that,

What more is there to say?

He walks a path so zigzag-flat,

His mind’s a twisty way.

 

Yet still we say, dear Ram Babu’s

A heart so soft and white

He’s “uncle” when the sun is up,

Turns “big bro” by the night.

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