Browse Tag: Free Verse

The neighborhood birds – a short story by Shiv Murti and a related poem by Ashok Gupta

Shiv Murti is classmate of mine from India.  Shiv writes short stories and illustrates them with his drawings.  This is his first posting on this website.  Hope you like it.

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Short Story by Shiv Murti

Sitting on the power lines, all neighborhood birds convened a meeting to decide which vehicle below is the cleanest. There were arguments and counter arguments. Finally, they unanimously reached an agreement and selected a vehicle to make their target.

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A Poem based on the short story by Ashok Gupta.

On a wintery day.
A scene often repeated.
This time something ominous.

A flock talking to each other.
In chirps never heard before.
A foreign language?
No way to tell.
Need AI to decipher.
Then silence.

Collective action followed.
Poor owner of a car.
Could have been my car.
Benefit of being lazy!
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