At the traffic lights

TSL Pandorathon Prompt (May 10)

You are stuck up at a busy traffic signal. Write a poem (within 30 lines) or a short prose (within 300 words) on any thing, person or incident that catches your attention at the signal.  Please tag me.  Thank you,  happy writing.  Rituparna Khan.

At the traffic lights

Stopped at the traffic light 

Listening to drive fm

Looking at the old Paddy’s market 

Urgent police cars sirens

Tearing the mellow afternoon mood

Patrol cars blocking the intersection 

Flashing blue, red lights on

The traffic lights answering 

On their merry go round way

Green, orange, red

The crossroad stay empty 

Stuck at the traffic lights

Can’t do a U-turn

Surrounded by police force

A black motorcade appears

Ten motorcycles followed 

By two black cars with flags on the bonnet

In the second one a waving hand is observed

By the walking crowd stopped by 

As soon as the official cars have passed

Traffic is opened to the rabbles

For we waited for the queen to wave us good day. 

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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