Red Ashes Of Terror Poem by Souren Mondal

Red Ashes Of Terror

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Young Nafisa,
all of seven,
sat against a blown up tank
and wished her younger brother Rahim
had been as lucky as her.

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She, after all, had her right leg intact and
a stick for crutches.


Martha was graduating from High School.
She wished her Peter was there.
He died in Iraq.

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'BUY THE OLD MAN LUNCH PLEASE'
HOMELESS PAUL sat with a pitchboard sign

He was an Afghan veteran without an eye and with PTSD.
A guy named Ahmed gave him a dollar
and said 'MAY ALLAH BLESS YOU'

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What a piece of work is war?
A bunch of lunatics kill innocents
and another bunch of lunatics kill more innocents
to avenge the death of innocents.

And all we are left with in the end
are the rotten red ashes of humanity drowned in the wind...

Souren Mondal
November 22,2015

Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: war
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
M Asim Nehal 26 November 2015

Heartfelt.........A true sketch and outcome of mindless war............Situation going from Bad to worst and human showing their thirst for one another's blood.....Who cares what is left behind, who care what they suffer, They are doing it for the cause only they better know...Thought provoking poem Souren, Thanks for sharing.

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Bakuli Bhakali 26 November 2015

Really! It’s terrible! Each year we lose lots of people in war, some fighting some saving! We lose lots of money defending war, that we could have use for some better purpose Yet we used it all for a waste! You penned the pain of war wonderfully! ! Thanks for sharing

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Bakuli Bhakali 26 November 2015

ya, that's true... so, keep writing and keep voicing maybe... some day we would be able to stop this... so never let the hope die..

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Edward Kofi Louis 05 March 2016

War destroys and kills! Thanks for sharing.

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Susan Williams 05 March 2016

I like the use of vignettes to carry your message. The politicians who enable war never see the individual faces they create with the savagery of war but the common man does. I don 't know what would happen if we all spoke out vigorously against war, would our political leaders hear us? And would it matter if one side or another refuses to stop killing as a way to get their way? But it is good for the soul to hear poets like you to speak powerfully out against it

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Nosheen Irfan 04 March 2016

Rotten red ashes of humanity drowned in the wind...marvelous. A very significant piece of work from a brave, out-spoken poet. Violence n inhumanity are the worst things to plague this world. A poignant write on the most important issue of the modern world. How terrorism can affect lives of innocent people is brought out with great depth n insight.

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Akhtar Jawad 06 February 2016

Terror is the worst problem of time, Souren Mondal, giving various names has honestly described it. Terror has no religion, no nationality and it believes in no ethics.

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Souren Mondal 18 February 2016

Thank you Akhtar sahab..

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Galina Italyanskaya 22 January 2016

Yes, but somebody believes that he gets his profit from war. It's nothing but business for him. Silly thing, but there are those who sell and buy consequences of wars. It's a very doubtful profit, but they believe in it more than in God. Or it's their god.

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Souren Mondal 18 February 2016

Thanks for commenting...

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