Triveni Journal

1927 | 11,233,916 words

Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....

Vultures

Tommy Frank O’ Connor

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Wings plume the sky.
Magnifico the ogres cry;
It’s just like the brochure says.
Feathered targets fly
Free in Irish skies. No ghillie
Needed  here to lead our guns.

Bang, repeated Bang; trigger
happy hunting killer men.
Robins, blackbirds, thrushes die.
Starlings flight shot asunder.
Assassins’s magazines snap
new death packages inside
the hammers.

Snowflake feathers
float to ground but cannot
cover scattered gore.
The mess,
which licensed fowlers measure
as success, waits as carrion
for vultures.

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