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indianKUKAI
Hosts: Kashinath Karmakar, Neena Singh
& Ravi Kiran
submit your poem
April 1 to April 14, 2023 -
12 Midnight (IST)
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voting ballot
1
a thick smog
turns off the stars
Earth Day
2
freshly turned earth
sowing many dreams
in his eyes
3
frightened puppy...
how the Earth shakes
when bombs drop
4
bhoomi poojan
plucking off grass
to lay the bricks
5
Earth Day
I tiptoe
all the way
6
climate change —
a bee’s stressful toil
from blossom to blossom
7
city ruins –
cherry blossom petals
bandage the wounds
8
strong hurricane
the earth is still spinning
at the same speed
9
down to earth -
all the flowers
in my garden
10
gathering in the sea
all the rains of march
my childhood earth
11
dancing
in the mud
a child's laughter
12
rayed shadow of stars
still rolling over the earth
the internet works
13
earth grows our food
why soil the word
and call it dirt?
14
spinning its own
catch and clap and trap
its wheel
15
the scent of rain drops
in the sound of a dry pot
earthen melody
16
oil wells field
on half a world away
the earth is crumbling
17
grounded
in your presence
such earthly delights
18
Raindrops lightly mist
The long-parched soil of winter
Bringing forth new life
19
between my toes-
the feel of soft wet mud
and an earthworm
20
green grass of home their rosy cheeks
21
dawn chorus
some songbirds
are missing
22
foreign land
different blue
is the sky
23
potter's wheel
my daughter's hands nurture
a tree around the sun
24
a sapling of peace lily
in a child's cupped hands ...
Earth day
25
A thirsty sailor
Chasing for a drop of water
In the mid ocean
26
scent of earth
in the farmer’s breath
plough moon
27
earth day
pointing the way
starfish
28
global warming -
afforesting the whole globe
in photoshop
29
walking in silence
a connection with
everything
30
A
tree
a cone
of earth
31
quenching the thirst
of my broken spirit
petrichor
32
lightening flash
marks of ox-cart
in the muddy grass
33
farmer
tilling earth . . .
his plough hits a landmine
34
dew drips
into dry seeds
emerald fields
35
Spring flowers droopy
Warm sun energises land
Tiny fruits emerge
36
dandelions
from my breath
a star is born
37
to be rain
on dry fields-
spring dream
38
desert spring
on Grandpa shing bald head
arteries and veins
39
our precious soil
how beauty
is skin deep
40
a saucer
lands
amid falling
petals
asylum
41
drought —
my thoughts lost
in the roots
42
old fault lines ...
each day widens
the rift
43
burial ground the dust meets dust
44
inside cartographers' record
a land
sink
45
furrowed fields
in the spring drizzle
Janaki
46
the blue planet
how I would like to see her
from outer space
47
never abandoning
her children~
mother earth.
48
under the blooming plum tree
the mound
and a ground spade
49
floods...
the long thirst
of an elephant
50
waning moon on earth nothing's for keep
51
spray free village
every verge sprawled
with wildflowers
52
monarch chase
a little girl
flaps her wings
53
over the polluted field tempest
54
earthlings…
the longing for the sun
the longing for the moon
55
those fireflies
chased through the lavender...
cyclonic storm
56
her curves
wooing me
the earth
57
water shortage
the planet keeps its secrets
well hidden
58
deforestation
pinning me more tightly
to this landscape
59
a globe –
a fruit fly has just climbed
Mt Everest
60
shadows
on the ground
shrouded earth
61
Earth Day
the widow browsing
a seed catalog
62
Submission Disqualified
63
your remembrance ...
high tide on
parched earth
64
full of life -
our blue planet rolling
in the galaxy
65
earth day...
the trees planted before war
whispering a song
66
soft killing
mother earth --
they spray day and night
67
the blue planet
still sick with cancer...
Earth Day
68
Earth Day...
war orphans hugging
a half charred tree
69
bereaved lands
lament the loss of evergreen
life denied
70
clouds darker
through the leaves
a forest fire
71
nights without crickets -
a thousand horror stories
left to tell
72
prune flowers -
thousands of teens together
for Friday for future
73
globalisation-
another seagull settles
downtown
74
news of your death
I wrench daisies
from the lawn
75
cracked earth
a rifle leaning
against the well
76
morning calm
I wake up to the scent
of the earth
77
earthrise
i change
my opinion
78
fragrant magnolias
the stream dotted
with refuse
79
rush hour …
for a moment the earthy scent
of unexpected rain
80
holding
heartbeats of unborn trees -
fistful of soil
81
forest path -
a sudden chill
in the north
82
earth
a small drop
of the universe
83
mud bath
dried petals bloom
with water
84
soil that breathes
as the plants drink
and birds make nests
85
homeless—
struggling to sweep the concrete slab
on which she sleeps
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