Blood splattered
On green meadows
A stunned valley lashed with vicious strokes
Bestial, ghastly, hellacious
Perhaps we just don robes of humanity
Over our brutal, sadistic selves
Lives snuffed out with precision
Headlines screamed in horrified wonder
Screens couldn’t believe their eyes
Already choked with mindless violence
Blood curdling visuals shaming insaaniyat
A savage felling down of gleeful tourists
Bodies lying in the silence of Death
Wounded like axed trees in a sylvan haven
The sky whimpered with their collective pain
Pahalgam cursed by its own beauty
A damsel slaughtered barbarically
The brooks will keep flowing with the stench of death
And the deodars will shriek with hellish nightmares
The snows will weep with the grieving bride
And Kashmiriyat will suffer perennially.
Lily Swarn’s Book “A Bejewelled Tiara” on Love And Peace recently published by Authors Press is now available on Amazon
International Beat Poet Laureate India 2023 -2024 , Caesar Vallejo award for literary excellence by UHE ,Lily Swarn, internationally acclaimed ,multilingual poet, novelist, essayist , columnist, gold medalist, university colour holder, radio show host, Peace and Humanity ambassador .
She has over 70 international and national awards including Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi award and her poetry is translated into 21 languages۔
Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi has awarded her recently “The Best Book of the Year Award (2023)” for her book of English Poetry, ‘The Divine Dialect of Flowers’.
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