“To be killed in a war is not the worst that can happen. To be lost is not the worst. To be forgotten is the worst.” ~ Pierre Claeyssens – This poem is dedicated to all warrior poets and writers who have fought in wars, and to the poets and writers who have been the victims of wars. Let’s not forget them and their sacrifices.
With the rain, we shall return to life again, the last tree standing in the forest said, before falling into the bushfire. The animals fled their homes. A mother koala, scorched, went looking for her baby, limping on the charred ground. The birds abandoned their nests and flew to fetch clouds from far skies. No one really knows how many birds and animals died, how many trees fell, offering their last sermons, but the earth. The earth remembers everything…
“River of Songs,” poem from “Bare Soul,” the winner of the “Naji Naaman Poetry Prize for Creativity” (2017), translated into Arabic by the Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail, the recipient of the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture and UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing, published in the latest print edition of “Acculturation” magazine from the United Kingdom. “River of Songs” poem and poetry film have been archived by Lunar Codex to launch on the moon on two separate NASA missions in 2022 and 2023. https://linktr.ee/kalpnasinghchitnis
