Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Wage-Earning Fingers - poem

 Wage-Earning Fingers - poem 

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'Thanks to ChatGPT for assisting in the English translation of my original Tamil creations.”)

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Wage-Earning Fingers - poem 

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Some fingers

like matchsticks,


some fingers

like roasted peanuts,


some fingers

like milk packets,


some fingers

like cups of coffee and tea,


some fingers

like shop-wrapped parcels,


some fingers

like muddy fields,


some fingers

like the folds of a sari,


some fingers

like sheets of paper and newspapers,


some fingers

like begging bowls—


wage-earning fingers,

children’s fingers.


— Nagendra Bharathi


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