Imagica of Kashmir

 NaPoWriMo / GloPoWriMo 2025

Kalpana Shah

Day: 30 

          Imagica of Kashmir

“Kitni khoobsurat yeh tasveer hai, yeh kashmir hai, yeh kashmir hai!”

These lines of Bollywood song 

I would here on and on 

It was a time, in college, i recited this song, fantasizing and romanticizing in it

It was a kashmir built in my imagination 

“My kashmir- in my imagination”

Unforgettable memory 

I can feel my emotions in that memory yet.

After years of my life

A real kashmir, i visited last year

And i remembered that song

And my dream came true

“A Mini Switzerland of India” 

“Kitni khoobsurat yeh tasveer hai, yeh kashmir hai, yeh kashmir hai!”

I recited the same lines

But this time, in reality 

I was drinking a mesmerizing beauty of kashmir

Though many adjectives  or figure of speech i use, will not be enough for kasmir

This kasmir of real was “God gifted reality”

A poetic heart in me, will love to relish the beauty of kashmir of imagination 

Kalpana’s imagination- kashmir

This year- kashmir

Not of tilips, Not of Snow

Whites and colours left, changed their colors

Changed the reality of “God Gifted Kasmr”

It’s not just a soil but beauty of God been tarnished, destructed

No contradictory adjectives, sufficient to describe the terrorists in Kashmir

It’s now echoes of screams of 28 tourists 

Who were pulled out of crowd

Brutally killed in the name of religion

Bruising the softness of religion

It’s now colour of blood 

In the place of richnesses of colors

It’s white coffins turned red

It’s now silent sobs lamenting

A song now - in slow motion 

We all sing eulogy for “the Heroes of Kashmir.”

Kalpana’s imagination 

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