A collection of poems by Mandar Kokatay

Birds song birds sing life's anthem soulful melody melts heart sly hunter takes aim © Mandar Jayant Kokatay

Water (Haiku-5-7-5) Life giving liquid, Dissolves Earths impurities, Some forms convey death © Mandar Jayant Kokatay

Silence - Dedicated to Earth day Branches scoured fruits devoured bark crumpled roots shriveled The tree is silent Trees chopped shrubs cropped vegetation vanished animals banished The forest is silent Soil eroded rocks abraded inners hollowed toxins swallowed The mountain is silent Water corrupted flow disrupted motor boating filth floating The river is silent submerged ships wrecked Oil spills unchecked species near extinction killed by pollution The sea is silent billion spouts smoked aerial routes choked stars intangible climate unpredictable The sky is silent flooding population nuclear radiation weapons of mass destruction Humans - God's own creation The Earth is silent The silence has a meaning The silence is threatening The silence is deafening Is anybody listening? © Mandar Jayant Kokatay