IPSITA GANGULI, INDIA (Peace Poem)

Ipsita Ganguly

War and Peace

After what seems like aeons

We sat down to broker peace.

In the backdrop

The followers of different faiths fought

baying for each other's blood!

Price of food soared to levels untouched

Voices of dissent got silenced

And intolerance became far too commonplace.

You spoke of collateral damage without batting an eyelid,

Without an iota of emotion or feelings,

Those who got crushed just didn't matter.

And yet tired of everything burning all around

We sat down and brokered peace

For old times and the times to come.

Our mellowness twirled and clinked

Like the ice in your vodka,

And the vanilla iced coffee I drank.

We brokered peace, you and I

Even while the holocaust cloud hovered above us.

 

Peaceful Moorings

Nights that strum peace

Laid out on the river

The banks submerged in tall grass

The moon hanging over

Like an ally

Watching me

Watching the moon

Remembering you

And the mellow sunlight

Caught in your whisky

That mellowness

Spread out in the setting sun

Reminding me of peace then

And my ally, the moon

Lighting up the sky tonight

The buzz and drone of the night bugs

The music of silent nights

And peaceful moorings.

Profile:

Ipsita Ganguli describes herself as a Business Consultant at sunrise and a Poet cum Travel Writer cum Heritage and Art Enthusiast at sunset. Ipsita writes...because she must. Her poems have been published in several national and international e zines and anthologies. She is also one of the main characters of the Poetry film Kolkata Cocktail. She has ideated, conceptualised and conducted a series of online Talk Shows entitled Cafe and curated offline Poetry events for Kolkata Literary Meet and at Kolkata Centre for Creativity She has authored two independent compilations of poems “Of Love, Longing and Random Pondering” and “Rooted, India 75, and We the People”.

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Setu, September 2023 :: Peace Poem