In Search of Peace
By Pravat Kumar Padhy
makeshift camp
kids stare at
the full moon
scribbled with warplanes
open
sky
the
vultures fly across
the
disputed border
war victims
the new rice wet
in grief
broken
promise
peace
lost its
meditation
waning moon
the parents beside
the coffin
prison
cell--
morning
prayer
echoes
darkness
empty
shell
a
girl in search of her doll
in
the rubble
war memorial
the dove on a
rusted cannon
events
of history
peace
and war on
the
same page
Kurukshetra:
Between War and Peace 2025(Eds. Prof. Roopali Sircar Gaur and Anita Joseph.
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