On Starvation and War Without Peace
Famine & War are Brothers Image: Tufts University
On Starvation
She is eighteen
An age to dance.
.. She knows not her age
Her face wrinkled with sunlight and dust
Once could have been pretty
Now in her tattered clothes,
With swollen belly lying on a street Begs in a broken bowl.
The remaining one rupee Snatched by a rogue
Tomorrow death may strike On an unknown street
Tomorrow death may strike in any street
Across the continents….
Millions will starve Millions will die
For want of food…
Only one question will be asked to them
By the prosperous “Go and search for work!”
Work?
Woman Near the River
Diverged distant dreams
Shattered dreams
Of life and beyond life
Deaths seemed to be easy on them
Dreams that are now non-existent. beneath the yellow sand of the riverbank
Breaking sand, one could see …
Fossilized bodies of frozen women
Bodies earlier drenched in red.
By men
Their men
Our men
Your men
My men.
War and No Peace
Do you want to know
Meaning of Peace?
Then
Read Kafka.
If you want to know
Of our powerlessness
Then
Read Camus.
If you want to know
About war
Just
Listen to
The music of
Ukrainian singers.
Rhythm of their instruments..
The songs are not melodies
They are shrieks .
Instruments measure
the noise of the wreck….
And when you really want to wail
Look at
Picture of
The Last Supper
Jesus will make you sob
He will make you cry…
Mandira Ghosh .
Well composed poetry carrying a lot of meaning and hitting straight at the chords of emotion. The people who ought to read will never read this and it this will also remain a distant dream
The author of these poems has made me emotional
Beautiful specially war and peace.
Beautiful specially war and peace.
Well composed well described reality making one think but the society remains unconcerned. The reason is that those who should read this will not.