Whispering Forests
Kabir Das · Class 8 · Mumbai
"Where sunlight threads through ancient oak, and silence teaches what textbooks forgot..."
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"The river carries whispers of a thousand monsoons,
Past the mango groves where my grandmother hummed,
It remembers what we have forgotten —
The language of rain and the silence of dusk."
"My pen is the only sword I carry to school,
sharper than hunger, mightier than rule —
I fold my anger into verse and voice,
because silence was never a choice."
"हर रोटी में एक कहानी बंद है,
माँ की उँगलियों का प्यार उसमें मंद है,
जब भी भूख लगती है, याद आती है वो गोल थाली..."
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