~ Delta Poetry Review ~

Pulkita Anand

Oh! You have somehow stolen 

history, a sucker, a mocker, a traitor

history, with its muffled presence, can be decoded

from the mute sounds

piecing together the geography of the land and the aesthetics

of wounds, cuts, scars

the bloodied cartography with its cleaning, rinsing and drying

history loses many colours in the meantime

its language is different

tongues echoed with the stranger’s voice

through the hills, the voice of ancestors humming

thieves stealing bread

bickering hours percolating tragedies

verdant valley vandalised

a shadow lost in time,

the trees filled with the sorrows of nervous bats

nightmare lingered long, but not memory

knowledge of the stranger too strange to rhyme

yet we chimed till we rhymed their dime

dyed and died

Pulkita Anand is an avid reader of poetry. Author of two children’s e-books, her recent eco-poetry collections are ‘we were not born to be erased’ and ‘What’s left Icarus?’. Various publications include: short stories kids, New Verse News, Green Verse: An anthology of poems for our planet (Saraband Publication), Comparative Women, Origami Press, Asiatic, Inanna Publication, Bronze Bird Books, SAGE Magazine, and elsewhere.