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Election Eclipses: A Ballad of Battle and Loss

Widow weeps, Mother mourns. But Battle’s brawl blows...

ByHerojit Philem

Updated 13 Apr 2024, 10:20 pm

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Ballot ballet blocks bullets

Gunshot gallops.

 

Widow weeps, 

Mother mourns

But Battle’s brawl blows

Sweet-scented screams.

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A wounded warrior waits

Recovery, Relief, and Revolution

Election eclipses effigies.

 

Victim’s vein

Flows frozen fluid

Shabby silences sculptors.

Only the owner orchestrates.

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Failures flooded the field.

Rice rate rises.

Poverty pays prices.

 

Election envelopes the environment

Captain’s cap captures comrades

Eviction ends.

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Herojit Philem

Herojit Philem

Imphal, Manipur

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