The Bleeding Bird Poem by Anjali Sahoo

A BLEEDING BIRD
Anjali Sahoo

Next to the cross, beside a hot spring,
A bleeding bird flapped, with a world on wings!

The cactus bush near went recurrently red,
A rolling sea sought refuge, in each drop it shed! !

I rinsed its wound, the winged world nursed!
I bandaged the bird! A blood thirst doused! !

I saw how a world whirled after a shot!
How it shattered a sky; to mere vanishing dots! !

When a life is blown, to quench a bullet's lust;
The door of humanity slams with a bang and bursts! !

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Anjali Sahoo, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India,
August,2021.