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Jeewan Ramlugun
The dove of docility
from its irenic demesne
shows up unfailingly,
ruffled feathers to smooth,
rabid rage to appease,
hurts to reckon, wounds heal;
on this blessed isle,
land of the regal kestrel,
and the once dodo, benign
to a fault, nature accepting
the vicissitudes, the vagaries
of inauspicious times,
in humanity to inculcate
the virtue of forbearance
and tolerance,
for the lovingly woven
tapestry of harmony
not to be irately asunder torn,
but to exercise due care
of its delicate lineaments;
not for nothing has it been
averred that:
‘blessed are the peacemakers’,
not just from the pulpit heard
but in deeds exemplified.
Jeewan Ramlugun
13 October 2026
