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…
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.