{"id":66328,"date":"2025-03-15T21:42:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=66328"},"modified":"2025-03-15T21:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:42:41","slug":"birds-send-him-in-shock-by-kushal-poddar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/birds-send-him-in-shock-by-kushal-poddar\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds Send Him in Shock by Kushal Poddar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Birds<\/h2>\n

Birds Send Him in Shock<\/h2>\n

by Kushal Poddar<\/p>\n

Even during the ceasefire
\na volery of birds tenses him,
\ntautens his muscles, gives him
\ngoosebumps. Seventy seconds,
\nit takes to run downstairs
\nand some more down to lie down
\ninside the womb of a porcelain tub
\nand to draw a broken door on the top.
\nThe parrots fly by; pigeons circle back.
\nOne lone dove builds an abandoned house,
\nbirths a boy flying a translucent kite
\nin the electric blue sky. He remains drowned
\nin the dry tub. He remains the remains of him.<\/p>\n

Kushal Poddar is the author of ‘A White Cane For The Blind Lane’ and ‘How To Burn Memories Using a Pocket Torch’ has ten books to his credit. He is a journalist, father of a four-year-old, illustrator, and an editor. His works have been translated into twelve languages and published across the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Birds Send Him in Shock” explores the haunting tension and trauma of conflict, using surreal imagery of birds, a porcelain bathtub, and a symbolic broken door<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}