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World Poetry Movement Hazaristan

Kamran Mir Hazar — 2023-02-25T16:41:47Z

Dear Fellow Poets in Asia and Across the Globe, Dear Coordinators of the World Poetry Movement, and Directors of International Poetry Festivals

First, I would like to pay my respect to all Hazara victims of ongoing genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, and discrimination. All members of the Hazara stateless nation are now struggling and trying to #StopHazaraGenocide. On behalf of the World Poetry Movement - Hazaristan, I would like to ask the global poetry community to stand with the Hazara like before by writing poems about the past, present, and future of the Hazara and Hazaristan in their native languages.
I also want to express my solidarity with the neighboring ethnicities and communities, such as the Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen, Baloch, and Nooristani. We are the victims of the ongoing long-term deadly strategies to be eliminated from our homeland, for instance, forcing the Turkic of South Turkestan to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, Tajiks to Tajikistan, the Hazara of Hazaristan to graveyards, and the rest, to be the servants of the racial hegemony.
Here, I also wish to pay my respect to the victims of the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
We are here to have poetry, not as a vehicle to carry things but as the spiritual ground to migrate from death to life.

Dear Fellow Poets,
It is very challenging to communicate with the world of politicians, a world with many conflicting interests and hypocrisy. I've seen many times politicians talking about democracy and human rights but later sitting next to terrorists and dictators, laughing and making decisions about the fate of millions of victims. I've seen many times how members of oppressive groups and regimes play on both sides, abusing the rights of others and, at the same time, pretending to be defenders of human rights and democracy that deserve to be Nobel Peace Prize winners.
The war against the native peoples in the Central and South Asia region started at least two centuries ago with the forced displacement of the Hazara. Then in the early and late 19th century, the genocide of over 60% of the Hazara, Hazara slavery, and invading the Hazara land Hazaristan, from the very south to the north. Then they went after other neighboring peoples. Finally, they could occupy Hazaristan, South Turkestan, and the shared cultural-historical Khorasan.
So-called Afghanistan appeared on the maps following the tragedies and systematic crimes against the native peoples. The oppressive regimes, politically, financially, and militarily backed by the British governments, committed all sorts of crimes, from burning people and books written in the language of natives to jailing children, women, and men. Victims suffered all levels of oppression, including ideological institutional, interpersonal, and internal oppression.
As part of the persecution policy, the natives were forced to accept a fake and injected identity called Afghan. They also were forced to be considered minorities based on nothing, no reliable data, but hypocrisy, force, and violence.
Those misleading narratives have become so dominant that even today, international human rights organizations and well-known researchers sometimes cannot distinguish when investigating the roots of such crimes and the current critical human rights situation.
The genocide of the Hazara is not only the physical elimination of the Hazara, those acts mentioned in the second article of the genocide convention but also cultural genocide. The worldwide poets state in their open letter dated the 21st of March 2017 that “destroying Hazara history and promoting an inaccurate, demeaning history of their culture have been further strategies, in addition to violent crimes.” While the Hazara have been facing genocide, the identity of many cultural and literary Hazara figures was stolen and presented as those related to others, not the Hazara. The attackers and invaders banned celebrating the new year, called Nawruz. They destroyed two most famous masterpieces of humanity's oral and intangible heritage, the female and male buddhas in Bamiyan Hazaristan. In our native Hazara language, we call the female Buddha, Khonok Bot, the cold, and the male Buddha, Sorkh Bot, the hot, both of them representing love, kindness, and loyalty.

Dear Poets,
In the 21st century, the Hazara native and stateless nation still suffer the same crimes. The only difference is that the criminals of the 19th century reemerged, some as suicide bombers and some while enjoying ethnic privilege as political lobbyists in the international environment.
We tried to reform society and take it from the middle age to a human-centric era by respecting and promoting diversity, and human rights, including women's rights. We formed social and civil movements, such as the Hazara Enlightenment Movement, offering flowers, poetry, education for all, music, and love. However, the response we received was more marginalization and oppression at all levels, in addition to attacks on our schools, clubs, clinics, and our every sort of gathering. For instance, On the 23rd of July 2016, when the Hazara Enlightenment Movement had a peaceful protest in Kabul, the corrupt Afghani government isolated the rally in one part of the city by security forces and putting containers on the roads. Then some Afghani suicide bombers killed and injured hundreds of the Hazara peaceful protesters. Last year, in September 2022, they attacked a Hazara education center called Kajj Education center and killed dozens of our children, primarily girls. As such, crimes are too many.
So, what was or what is the reaction of the international community, including world political leaders and international organizations? Maybe saying "NOTHING" is not the correct answer when the whole country and most of the military equipment of NATO and the USA left for suicide bombers. Those suicide bombers formed a government based on one ethnicity and one gender, the male. They follow racial hegemony and ban women entirely from social, cultural, economic, and political activities. From the lens of intersectionality, women from native communities are in a weaker position. Those suicide bombers even forbid writing and reading poetry that does not obey their racial hegemony.
And yes, we also see some poor statements from the international community, first, ignoring the identity of victims based on misleading dominant narratives and second, ignoring the international community's responsibility regarding conventions such as the genocide convention.

Hazaristan Chapter of the World Poetry Movement

Dear Poets in Asia and Dear Poets Across the Globe,
The history of Hazaristan in the past and its contemporary history also have another side. That side is marked by Hazara resistance, uprising, protests, civil movements, cyber activism, and promoting human rights and equality. In the last months since October 2022, after the bloody attack on our schoolgirls, over 30+ million tweets were posted containing the hashtag #StopHazaraGenocide.
We protested in over 120 cities in different countries, including Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Germany, England, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, The United States, Canada, and Brazil. Those protests, while raising the flag of Hazaristan, are to raise global awareness toward rewriting history, stopping the Hazara genocide, and reverse engineering oppression.

That side of our history also has poetry and literature, folklore, tales, and the native narratives passed from one generation to another to keep history, culture, and identity alive. As the Japanese poet Ban'ya Natsuishi explains, “The Hazara people of central Asia overlapped various cultures; they enriched our civilization.
We have thousands of folk poems, thousands of proverbs, and hundreds of folktales. Those are besides our classical, solid literature, such as the poems of our great poet Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi.

Today, our entire community, including poets, writers, journalists, activists, and artists, are forced to be silent. They cannot have gatherings or publish and express themselves freely under the rule of suicide bombers. In the last two-three decades, many of them were jailed, kidnapped, threatened, killed, or injured. Many of them have been forced to leave the country. Some live paperless in Pakistan or Iran, and some as asylum seekers and refugees in other countries.
At this point, organizing many in critical security situations or stressful asylum processes is challenging. We at World Poetry Movement – Hazaristan initiated contacts and had some initial online meetings discussing how to organize and gather our poets who are scattered across the globe.
We also discussed starting Hazaristan Press as a publisher with a mission to make the books of our poets and writers available to readers in different countries and languages and global poetry in our native language.
In recent years, we managed to publish the poetry anthology Poems for the Hazara, which includes the contributions of 125 international poets from 68 countries dedicated to the Hazara. We also released two open letters signed by hundreds of international poets to support the Hazara and one signed by international poets and some PEN clubs to support the Hazara poets, writers, activists, and journalists living in a critical security situation.
We plan to have poetry workshops for those interested in writing professionally and learning about our classical and modern poetry, besides modern and contemporary world poetry.
Those things take time; however, we know we need them, and we know that we are connected to a network of professional poets worldwide via the World Poetry Movement. That is very helpful as our aim at the World Poetry Movement is to migrate from death to life.

Thank you
Official website of the World Poetry Movement

An Open Letter from the Poets World-wide to the Hazara, Civil and Human Rights Organizations, Immigration Authorities, and World Leaders

2017-07-06T20:51:37Z

We poets from around the world, proclaim to the Hazara people, that we are in full solidarity with your civic and cultural movements to protect your human rights. We are aware that you are victims of systematic crimes, including genocide, slavery, forced displacement, discrimination, and the invasion of your homeland, Hazaristan. However, like the movements that ended apartheid in South Africa, and the American civil rights movement, your movements such as the Hazara Enlightenment movement will also achieve success. We hear your voices, we reflect it in our poetry, and lift it into contemporary world literature.

Today, the systematic crimes against the Hazara in Afghanistan and Pakistan are proof that the Hazara are being deprived of their human rights. In Afghanistan, where the Hazara are its native people, the government ignores the crimes against the Hazara, and misleads the international community by granting the Hazara a few insignificant government posts.

Some of the most recent crimes against the Hazara are:
• Ignoring demands for their basic rights and equal treatment
• Attacks on peaceful Hazara protests, for example on July 23, 2016, a bloody attack on the peaceful protest of the Hazara Enlightenment movement killed and injured over 400 in Kabul.
• Oppressive actions by the government against the Hazara Enlightenment movement including refusal to provide security for its gatherings and protests, isolating and blocking roads at protests, censoring, threatening the movement's activists with detention, and firing on them from public institutions.
• Using terrorists to obstruct Hazara travel by abducting, torturing, killing, and beheading them, including children and women. This has made the secure passage of Hazara impossible on nearly all roads in Afghanistan.
• Organizing war crimes including bloody attacks on Hazara religious and non- religious gatherings in major cities like Kabul and Mazar i Sharif.
• Allowing attacks on Hazara villagers by armed Pashtun nomads who have full government and Taliban support.
• Allowing organized attacks on Hazara activists, artists and writers.
• Systematic discrimination against the Hazara in public institutions and governmental offices.
• Marginalization of the Hazara by depriving them of fulfilling careers, and allowing them only manual labor jobs. Hazara make up less than 5% of those employed in public institutions and governmental offices.
• Driving frustrated and hopeless young Hazara to drug addiction.
• Allocating less than 2% of the national budget to Hazara areas.
• Posting of Hazara soldiers and officers to the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan.
• Afghan government agreements with western countries for forced deportation targeting primarily Hazara asylum seekers. .

The attacks and systematic destruction of the Hazara are being carried out by the Afghan government and the terrorist groups including the Taliban and Daesh. There are many reports on the links between some high-ranking officials and terrorist groups.

In Pakistan, the Hazara are still under attack, and the government is not able or not willing to protect them.

Organized attacks and genocide of the Hazara in the 21th century continue the policies of Hazara ethnic cleansing and invasion of their lands.

In the 19th century, during the rule of Afghan Dost Mohammad Khan, The Hazara, made up about 67% of their country's population. However, many Hazara faced forced displacement during this period.

At the end of the century, Afghan king, Abdurrahman Khan, with British support, planned the genocide of the Hazara. More than 62% were killed, thousands were sold as slaves and many parts of the Hazara's lands had been invaded. After these crimes, in this area, the name Afghanistan appeared on maps.

Afghanistan's entire 20th century history has been marked by killings of Hazaras and systematic discrimination against them. On February 10 and 11, 1993 in the Afshar area of Kabul, the Mujahadeen government, and its allies exterminated and left injured thousands of Hazara men, women and children. In August 1998, the Taliban killed more than ten thousand Hazaras in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Similar bloodbaths quickly spread to other parts of Afghanistan including Yakawlang. Destroying Hazara history and promoting an inaccurate, demeaning history of their culture have been further strategies, in addition to violent crimes. For example, in March 2001, the Taliban notoriously destroyed the ancient Buddha sculptures of Bamyan which were principal symbols of Hazara history and culture, and one of the most popular masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity. Such is the history of two centuries of crimes against the Hazara, and from which they still suffer.

We, the poets world-wide address our letter to the civil and human rights activists and organizations, and ask them to monitor the Hazara rights situation, document the crimes against them, raise awareness in the world about the Hazara, and put pressure on the government to end the crimes. The crimes mentioned in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination are the same as the crimes that the Hazara suffered and still suffer. Those conventions should be helpful to prevent the crimes against the Hazara.

We, the poets world-wide address our letter to the immigration directories, and ask them to grant Hazara asylum seekers political asylum. The condition of the Hazara fit the 1951 Refugee convention and related protocols. The agreement with the Afghan government on forced deportation is another crime in addition to those they suffer.

We ask the world's politicians to recognize the Hazara genocide in their national parliaments and in international communities, to use all legal methods to stop crimes against the Hazara permanently, and see that the victims are compensated.

We especially ask the British government to officially apologize to the Hazara for supporting the Afghan dictator at the end of 19th century. This support resulted in the genocide, slavery, forced displacement and systematic discrimination—much of which abides today. It merits compensation to the descendants of the wronged.

The international community should put pressure on the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and make their aid conditional on the improvement of human rights including the Hazara rights.

Again, we the poets world-wide are with the Hazara.

Signatures:

• Kamran Mir Hazar, poet, Hazaristan, Norway
• Fernando Rendón, poet, editor, and director of International Poetry Festival of Medellin (Colombia)
• Etnairis Ribera, poet, Puerto Rico
• Vyacheslav Kupriyanov, poet, Russia
• Berry Heart, poet, Botswana
• Alfredo Fressia, poet, Uruguay, Brazil
• Achour Fenni, poet, Algeria
• Carlos López Degregori, poet, Perú
• Winston Morales Chavarro, poet, Colombia
• Irena Matijašević , poet, Croatia
• Carla Christopher , poet, U.S.A.
• André Cruchaga, poet, El Salvador
• Iris Miranda, poet, Puerto Rico
• Rafael Patiño Góez , poet, Colombia
• Luz María López, poet and editor, Puerto Rico
• Dragana Evtimova, poet and translator, Macedonia
• Lee Kuei-shien, poet, Taiwan
• Laus Strandby Nielsen, poet, Denmark
• Sulma Montero, poet, Bolivia
• Neeli Cherkovski, poet, U.S.A.
• Beppe Costa, poet, Italy
• Bina Sarkar Ellias, poet, India
• Chen Hsiu-chen, poet, Taiwan
• Rati Saxena, poet, India
• Fadıl Oktay , poet, Turkey
• Metin Cengiz, poet, Turkey
• Fahredin Shehu, poet, Kosovo
• Debasmita Ganguly, poet, India
• Angelina Llongueras, poet, Catalonia
• Hussein Habasch, poet, Kurdistan
• A'zam Obidov , poet, Uzbekistan
• Attila F. Balázs, poet, editor, and translator, Slovakia
• Simón Zavala Guzmán, poet, Ecuador
• Bengt Berg, poet, Sweden
• Jalal El Hakmaoui , poet, Morroco, Marruecos
• William Perez Vega , poet, Puerto Rico
• Markus Barbarossa , poet, Austria
• Jean-Marc Desgent , poet, Quebec, Canada
• Marco Cinque, poet and musician, Italy
• Antonino Caponnetto, poet, Italy
• Gabriel Ánge, poet, Colombia
• Ahmad al shahawy, poet and journalist, Egypt
• Olivera Docevska, lawyer, poet, diplomat, human rights activist, translator and editor, Macedonia
• Eduardo Esparza, painter, Colombia
• Ricardo Rubio, poet, Argentina
• Elsa Tió, poet, Puerto Rico
• Carlos Barbarito, poet, Argentina
• Dan Taulapapa McMullin, poet and artist, American Samoa & U.S.A.
• Ioana Trica, poet, Romania
• Catherine Marchais, poet, France
• Peter Semolič, poet, Slovenia
• Alexander Zanches, poet, Panama
• Carolina Zamudio, poet, Argentina
• Annabell Manjarrés Freyle, poet, Colombia
• Manuel Pachon Freyle, poet, Colombia
• Antonella A. Rizzo, poet, Italy
• Carlos Ciro, poet, Colombia
• Stefania Di Lino, poet, Italy
• Franca Palmieri, poet, Italy
• Fabrizio Arrighi , poet, Italy
• Giovanna Iorio, poet, Italy
• Xibri Valbona, poet, Italy
• Lina María Trujillo, poet, Colombia
• Alfonso Rendon, poet, Panama
• Andrea Garbin, poet, Italy
• Iris Violeta Pujols, poet, Puerto Rico
• Alessandro Galli, poet, Italy
• Stefania Battistella, poet, Italy
• Jona Burghardt, poet, Argentina
• Jason Forbus, poet, Italy
• Maria Ostolaza , poet, Puerto Rico
• Carlos Andrés Jaramillo, poet, Colombia
• Althea Romeo-Mark , poet, Antigua
• Cristina Domenech, poet, Argentina
• Adriano Corrales Arias, poet, Costa Rica
• Aida Parraga , poet, EL Salvador
• Luis Fernando Osorno Giraldo , poet, Colombia
• Angela Tello, poet, Colombia
• George M Momogos, poet, South Africa
• Anthony L. Tan, poet, Philippines
• Alicia Minjarez Ramírez, poet, Mexico
• Gémino H. Abad, poet, Philippines
• Dušan Gojkov, poet, Serbia
• Dinah Roma, poet, Philippines
• Shailja Patel, poet, Kenya
• Keshab Sigdel, poet, Nepal
• Valeriano Forte, poet, Italy
• Marc Delouze, poet, France
• Hatto Fischer, poet, Germany
• Gerry Loose, poet, Scotland
• K. Satchidanandan, poet, India
• George Momogos, poet, South Africa
• Samir Delgado, poet, Canary Islands
• Tobias Burghardt, poet, Germany
• Daniel de Culla, poet, Spain
• Agneta Falk, poet, Sweden
• Jack Hirschman, poet, U.S.A.
• Heike Fiedler, author, performer, Switzerland
• Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen, poet, Norway
• Vladimir Marku, poet, Albania
• Aju Mukhopadhyay, poet, India
• Jüri Talvet, poet, Estonia
• Mario Castro, poet, Chile
• Ostap Slyvynsky, poet and translator, Ukraine
• Winston Farrell, poet, Barbados
• Senem Gokel, poet, Cyprus
• Cristian Avecillas, poet, Ecuador
• Erling Kittelsen, poet, Norway
• Daniel Freidemberg, poet, Argentina
• Robin S Ngangom, poet, India
• Erik Arellana Bautista, poet, Colombia, Germany
• Daniela Dante, poet, Italy
• Gabriel Rosenstock, poet, Ireland
• Jack Foley, poet, U.S.A.
• Mohammad Taghi Khavari, poet, Iran
• Rafiq Kathwari, poet, Kashmir, U.S.A.
• Waqas Khwaja, poet, Pakistan
• Ronnie Hawkins, poet, Colombia
• Marino Santalucia, poet, Italy
• Sonia Maioli, poet, Italy
• Maria Elena Mesa Mejia, poet, Cuba
• Rosario Napoli, poet, Italy
• Daniel Acevedo, poet, Colombia
• Basir Ahang, poet, Hazaristan, Italy
• Silvia Miguens, writer, Argentina
• Kala Ramesh, Poet, India
• Henry MBA Mellem, poet, Togo, Cameroon
• Synnøve Persen, Sami poet, Norway
• William Alfaro, poet, El Salvador
• William Allegrezza, poet, U.S.A.
• Anna Lombardo, poet, Italy
• Sergio Badilla Castillo, poet, academic and journalist, Chile
• Víctor Manuel Pinto, poet, Venezuela
• Robert Max, poet, Colombia
• Subodh Sarkar, Bengali poet, India
• Giuseppe Napolitano, poet, editor and organizer of international poetry meeting, Italy
• Alessandro Assiri, poet, Italy
• Diane Lefer, poet and fiction writer, U.S.A.
• Silvana Berki, poet, Finland
• Julio César Pavanetti Gutiérrez, poet, Uruguay,Spain
• Christopher Okemwa, poet, Kenya
• Alfredo Luna, poet, Argentina
• Enrica Borrini, poet, Italy
• Dimitar Anakiev, poet, filmmaker and activist, Slovenia
• Fabrizio Arrighi, poet, Italy
• Richard Krawiec, poet, U.S.A.
• Antanas A. Jonynas, poet, Lithuania
• Julio Salgado, poet, Argentina
• Juan Cameron, poet, Chile
• Alina Beatrice Chesca, poet, Romania
• Aubin Alongnifal, poet and researcher in public law, Cameroon
• Yiorgos Chouliaras, poet, Greece
• Claudio Amancio Suarez, poet, Argentina
• Ernesto P. Santiago, poet, Philippines
• Joy Harjo, poet, musician, writer, performer, U.S.A.
• Hilde Susan Jaegtnes, screenwriter and poet, Norway
• Rhyme Sonny, poet, Ghana
• Santiago B. Villafania, poet, Philippines
• Tamer Öncül, poet, Cyprus
• Ricardo Luis Plaul, poet, Argentina
• Marta Ortiz, poet, Argentina
• Gertrude Fester, poet, South Africa
• Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, poet, South Africa
• Lucía Revuelta, poet, Peru
• Carlos Manuel Rivera, poet-performer, Puerto Rico
• Karla Coreas, Poet, translator, and Director Latin American Poetry Festival in New York
• Teresa Orbegoso, poet, Peru
• Roberto Masiero, writer and poet, Italy
• Hashem Javadzadeh, poet, painter and photographer, Iran
• Marry Ailonieida Somby, Sami writer, Norway
• Jan Erik Vold, poet, Norway
• Adjei Agyei-Baah, poet, and founder of Poetry Foundation, Africa Haiku Network, Ghana
• Umar Timol, poet, Mauritius
• Hanan Awwad, poet and president of Palestine PEN, Palestine
• C.K. Stead, poet, New Zealand
• Ostap Nožak, poet, Ukraine, Poland
• Teresa Mei Chuc, poet, U.S.A.
• Marjorie Evasco, Philippines
• Hawad, poet, Amazigh Tuareg
• Benny Franklin , poet, Brazil
• Zeravan Silevani, poet, Kurdistan
• Daniel De Culla, poet, writer and photographer, Spain
• Omar Ardila, poet and essayist, Colombia
• Abdul Milazi, poet, author and musician, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Anandi Fernandez, poet, Argentina, India
• Eduardo Llanos Melussa, poet, Chile.
• Germain Droogenbroodt, poet, Belgium, Spain
• Birgitta Jonsdottir, Poetician/parliamentarian for the Pirate Party in the Icelandic Parliament
• Bernard Noël, poet and writer, France
• Helene Laprevotte, writer, France
• Ersi Sotiropoulos, poet and writer, Greece
• Fabio Barcellandi, poet, Italy
• Hernán Sánchez Barros, poet and writer, Argentina
• Ali-Tagba Tétérého, poet, Togo, West Africa
• Hugo Francisco Rivella, poet, Argentina
• Kozeta Zavalani, poet, journalist, writer and publisher, Albania
• Piccolo, poet and editor of the literary journal lamacchinasognante.com, U.S.A.
• Barbara Pogačnik, poet, translator and literary critic, Slovenia
• Shaip Emerllahu, poet and festival director, Macedonia

Hazara Rights
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For more information, please contact Hazara poet Kamran Mir Hazar at email: kamranatkamranmirhazar.com
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Skype: kamran.mir.hazar

Protest poems by Sonnet Mondal

2015-03-25T19:36:08Z

Guerrillas

Look
how they walk together: our heralds
as guerrillas scream for food in huts
with crumbled breasts
clinging onto the lips of baby skeletons

NO, there isn't anything dark in it.

The stars are brighter than ever today.
Each one as intense and unwavering as the pole star
crowding beside the streets of our national gate.
God bless their firmness!

We are still wondering
seeing you two in our ‘national television,(still the only one in our village)
if we can ever see our reflection
in the polished skin of those escorting cars behind you.

Smiling in a stance which you might term Satanic
we are walking with earth above our head.
The vanity cars:
they will surely show us our faces,
once these roads are complete.

Seeing how we look then,
we will surely laugh
like guerrillas.

How smart are we!

We are becoming one to put up malls, mobile towers, wifi ...

Oh sorry!
Our future is a smart city.
Oh sorry!
Our future is a smart country.
Oh so sorry!
We are already so smart.

Can we please have the pleasure of seeing sparrows again?
The growing number of tigers
long to see them too.

Our smart phones are bored-
Selfies are constantly competing for watsapp DPs
Downloads are demanding more land
Browsers are discussing terms with antiviruses

Our smart phones-
They are opening their eyes often nowadays
to see something in to extinction
to capture
a panorama of a zoo tiger-cub looking at a wild sparrow.

A snarling inside bars-
can be of curiosity, warning or fear
but with assured protection

And a free life of hollow bones
flying from branch to branch
walking like a gentleman through grasses
but endangered by our smartness.

Ah sorry!
No worries.
Let the smart city and smart country grow!
Photoshop is there to create
a panorama of a zoo tiger-cub looking at a wild sparrow.

Dilemmas in front of Terrorism

She was standing with her baby.

One scream and the baby may die
from the hunting bullet of the terrorists
sniffing human flesh in the parking.

Her chauffeur stood still
unaware
waiting
behind the half opened car door.

Shall she signal the driver to come forward?

Dilemmas in her mind spoke
Yes, Let him die.
Let the infant see some more days
And
a mother shall live too
for her child.

The chauffeur came forward
Bullet sounds were heard
But no screams.

Far inside the house of a chauffeur
two babies fought over toy cars
with their mother
smiling beside.

About the poet:
Sonnet Mondal is an Indian poet and editor. Born and brought up in West Bengal, Sonnet currently resides in the city of Kolkata, India.
He is the founder of The Enchanting Verses Literary Review and has authored eight collections of poetry.
Sonnet's poetry collections include Prismatic Celluloid (2013), Diorama of Three Diaries (2011), Twenty One Lines Fusion Sonnets of 21st Century (2010), Ink and Line (2014) among others.
Sonnet was featured as one of the Famous Five of Bengali youths by the India Today magazine in 2010 and in the Forbes List of Celebrated contemporary Indian authors in 2014.
Sonnet's works have been included in the editions of The Sheepshead Review (University of Wisconsin, Green Bay), The Penguin Review (Youngstown State University), Two Thirds North (Stockholm University), Nth Position, Fox Chase Review, The Stremez (Supported by The Ministry of Culture, Macedonia), California State Poetry Quarterly (California State Poetry Society), The Thing Itself Journal (Our Lady of the Lake University, Texas) and Dark Matter Journal (University of Houston-Downtown) to name a few. His works have been translated into Hindi, Arabic, Italian, Macedonian, Turkish and other languages.