Narrow Road Journal had a special issue called 'A New World' edited by Smeetha Bhoumik. Here's the poem ''In the Woods' which I wrote for it!
In the Woods (a ghazal)
Beside the lake, beneath the trees in the woods
Murmuring humming buzzing bees in the woods
No daffodils, but lantana- red orange yellow pink
Music, songs and love float on a breeze in the woods
Children run jump dance and play in joy
No school rules, no school fees in the woods
The birds know no caste and the deer no politics
Human ideas of money power privilege freeze in the
woods
There’s no lies, malice, selfish greed in the forest
No oil pollution petrol diesel grease in the woods
A big bright rainbow hangs splendid in the sky
Across the field, a flock of geese in the woods
No dairy cows are traumatised beyond horror
Because nobody eats cheese in the woods.
Hues of orange pink purple blue red green
Peacocks and their mates tease in the woods.
The sun sets like a jewel, beyond the hill
The world is so beautiful, oh jeez, in the woods
Birds chirp and twitter, rabbits and squirrels hop
Life gets a new lease in the woods
Can we leave the muck and rot, create a new world
Won’t you come and live, says Shruti, please, in the
woods?
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