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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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A CENTURY OF LIMERICKS
With one hundred limericks under my belt,
A quiet satisfaction have I subconsciously felt.
But it is not yet time to take a rest,
But to relentlessly pursue this quest,
Until a body blow to some injustices has been dealt.
I know very well indeed that words alone
In history, have seldom been known
To achieve, by themselves, what action can,
But there is much to be said about an ideas man
Who, in the past, has the path to action shown.
No man, they say, is a prophet in his own land -
That is a perspective that helps to understand
Why Goa, with its wealth of talent and brains,
Even today has failed to break the chains
Of its backwardness, or its horizon expand.
Yet one has in life to make use of one's skill
So that one can one's dharma somehow fulfill.
It may not ultimately amount to much,
And even be at most a simple crutch -
But finally one stops only when over the hill.
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--- Shanti Dhoot
