Poem – Kalpna Singh-Chitnis

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Unanswered: A Poem on the Sacrifices in War on World Poetry Day

“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.

The Earth Remembers: A Hundred and Eleven Line Poem by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis

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…

“The Daughters of the Hindu Kush” Nominated for Publication of the Year

A crowd sits in a circle and watches the justice being delivered.
There are many circles outside the circle invisible to our eyes.
She cannot escape.

Sermon: A poem by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize by the International Human Rights Art Festival Journal

If you hope to do anything for change/ write an epic or a tale in my name/ and teach it if you can, in every school on earth/ If you are a woman, tell my story to your sons./ If you are a man, tell it to your daughters./ If you are a preacher, teach it as a sermon to the believers.

Genesis: A Poem by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis in The Agonist

Let the wolves tell your story to the moon/ and the lightening in the sky reveal/ the mystery of your origin./ Let it all happen/ when the night is somber, / and the world is fast asleep./ It’s going to rain on earth
for thousands of years after that.

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