Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 6, Number 1. May 2023. ISSN: 2581-7094
Reflections on
Peace
--- Maitreyee B
Chowdhury
Early dusk in
Bhopal, April 2015
A young boy stood in the middle of the Taj-ul-masajid,
covered his ears and began a song.
Was it a protest,
a call to prayer,
or all of us bleeding together?
Nothing moved, especially not silence-
just a young boy
who sang,
for all those who passed away, song-less.
Seven in the morning,
at the base of the Arunachala mountain in Tiruvannamalai, Ramanashram-
A monk stood with seeds in his hands, looking skywards.
A peacock cried out,
a sudden cloud of colour flapped its wings-
the bird
descended
and gently ate what was offered.
The trust of an animal, so precious.
Only moments are peaceful, and everything but a reflection of it.
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