Peter Griffin ☕

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Folx, if you’re on Instagram and care about our few remaining urban green spaces, follow https://www.instagram.com/savecityforests which is fighting to defend 400 acres of woodland in the University of Hyderabad, which the state government is hacking down so it can auction the land.
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She lies, moss-covered, in a neglected Dehradun garden. The friend who made this picture calls it The Reading Girl of Dehradun.
(Sculpted by MN Tyagi who retired there from teaching at Jamia Millia Islamia's Faculty of Fine Arts, where his statue of Ghalib stands on the lawns of the main campus.)
Poetry In Parks meets every four weeks in a New Bombay park (a different one each time), sharing poems we love and why we love them. (We do not read our own poems.)
Everyone is welcome.
Mail { poetry DOT in DOT parks DOT nm @ gmail } to get a calendar invitation & map location pin. Or subscribe to our channel https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaJUmoG1iUxeCpXyti3o to get notifications once in four weeks.
Next meet: Nerul, 9th March.
See https://youtube.com/@PoetryInParks / https://instagram.com/poetry.in.parks/ for recordings of past meets.
Letters to Gaza Global Call by ASHTAR Theatre.pdf

Google Docs

The overlap of poetry lovers and New Bombay residents (and Instagram users) on Mastodon is probably zero (and my reach here is tiny), but just in case:

https://www.instagram.com/poetry.in.parks

https://zigzackly.blogspot.com/2024/01/poetry-in-parks.html

So long, 2023.

The ice-cream trucks of Gaza

The ice-cream trucks of Gaza still run
Which is to say, their engines turn over
In parking lots.
You see, there isn’t room enough
In the morgues.
So parents line up
To claim their children
From the ice-cream trucks of Gaza.

(Image from the Instagram feed of Motaz Azaiza.)