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From ULR
Issue 6 – Freedom
‘mine’
A tender love shattered, a peaceful village dug for conflict, yielding only war's iron harvest
December 1, 2021
he was mine
until a company cleared our village,
dug a Mine
he now wears khaki
i wear green
we sow bullets in our land
to reap an iron harvest.
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PART OF A COLLECTION‘mine’ and 3 other poems
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Devashish Makhija
Devashish Makhija has written and directed the multiple award winning films ‘Ajji’ (Granny), ‘Bhonsle’, ‘Taandav’, ‘El’ayichi’, ‘Agli Baar’ (And then they came for me), ‘Rahim Murge pe mat ro’ (Don’t cry for Rahim LeCock), ‘Absent’, and ‘Happy’; has had a solo art show ‘Occupying Silence’; written the bestselling children’s books ‘When Ali became Bajrangbali’ and ‘Why Paploo was perplexed’, a Harper-Collins collection of short stories ‘Forgetting’, the novel ‘Oonga’, and the forthcoming book of poems ‘Disengaged’. He is always under construction at www.makhijafilm.com