War Gods need offerings

Trigger Warning: mentions of war and gore

Hatred does not cease by hatred.

But only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Buddha

In this greed

For power, for money

Everything has turned into ashes

The house of a weaver is a threat

With its secret grass

The nuts of squirrels are threats

Of nukes

The pouch of the kangaroo

Holds pistols

A song of a warbler is

A morse code

The hoopoe spies

Hatred is sown and sold

Hatred in breath, in food

And water

Jigging on jingoism

A new rhyme of crime

Silence sauntering for shelter

No mercy, it’s an emergency

War mongers are parading earth

Purchasing poison, fire, data, people…

Denuding lands, dazed beings

On death, beds are groaning

in pain and suffering

orphaned, maimed, murdered,

hungry refugees hanging, crashing, and collapsing

expansion of explosion, and destruction

billowing smoke clouds, droning planes

burning homes, bulldozing places

killing people, plants, peace, and freedom

mourning on the grave of hope

fading and erasing everything

War gods like blood offerings…

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Pulkita Anand has authored two children’s e-books, her  eco-poetry collection is we were not born to be erased. Her creative works have been published in: Shortstory Kids, Twist and Twain, Winc Magazine ( Stanza Cannon, Superpresent, Muse,Madwomen in the Attic, Poetica#1  NCTE, The Uglywriters, Impspired  redsoethorns Journal Kritya, The Amazine, Carmina Magazine, Origami Press, Asiatic, Inanna Publication, Bronze Bird Books, New Verse News, Hakara Journal, Madras Courier, Green Verse: An anthology of poems for our planet (Saraband Publication), Comparative Women, Borderless journal, Convergence anthology (selected), The sunlight Press (selected), MAI and elsewhere.