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A poem for WORLD GOA DAY 2006
by MARCOS GOMES-CATAO
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On WORLD GOA DAY 20th August_2006
To G O A Our common Home
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Hearts aflutter Goans gather
For to-day's seminal meets
Hands across lands and seas
Festive revellers with joyous voices
In unison, to accords
Of String and Wind, sing
The land they deem HOME
Home's where you're born
Home's where you've grown'
Where the hearth's glow glimmers and grows
Home's the warmth that bonds
Even those that are not kin
In a meld of mind and lore.
Home's the smell of earth
Watered by filial sweat
The flower-bed of fragrant roses
Sprouting with love's tender care
Home's not a piece of paper
Bandied as a Passport
Home's the flitting memory
Of 'feni' and violins
At the 'ladainha' by the wayside Cross
The sounds of the merry band
At the annual village 'fest'
Ere the 'sanna', 'sorpotel, 'mando'.
Home's yearning does not wilt
Even if seemingly asleep
In a benign foreign clime.
Home's the quiver in the voice,
The knot in the heart
When one comes back
After a long stay out
Try then never to demerit,
Much less disdain'
The Home where you were born.
For it is the richest gift
>From the Good Lord you've won
MARCOS GOMES-CATAO
(By kind request of R. Barreto, )
Organizer, WORLD GOA DAY
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Thank you Marcos. - rene
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