Doves soaring the height of a falcon
Falconers keep their falcons awake during the wheat harvesting season as a part of their training.
A dove closes its eyes when attacked by a predator being a prey, but song of a dancing male dove echoes in my ears till date. Maybe the chorus and vocals of these calls are deep enough to cast an everlasting shadow on you. Dove happens to be a sign of peace, love and harmony. White flag was raised during the aftermath of both the world wars. Battle of falcons were always cease-fired by doves. In the context of symbolism, a dove is a symbol of tranquility.
Falconers get their gloves stitched by the leather craftsmen because claws can leave marks that are everlasting. Poachers use gun in-order to hunt quails, partridges, pheasants and other game birds. They think that battle can be won through the barrel of a gun. Smell of gun powder and pellets of cartridges, both are addictive. Once you get the addiction, you keep on meddling on the wrong paths leading to poaching. Legal hunting is allowed in limits but falconers are better conservationist than the ones with shotguns.
Falconers keep their falcons awake during the wheat harvesting season as a part of their training. On the contrary, a dove closes its eye even in the smirking rays of sun and pretends as if the darkness of night has begun.
Coercive force is never the solution. Manifestation of soft power is always persuasive in nature and opens the windows of minds which can be a better way of broadcasting a narrative or a rhetoric.
A duck caller is used by hunters to deceive waddling of ducks and bring these flocks to the target of their sight. But remember when the first sound of the fire rumbles and the trigger is pulled, the flock runs away.
Diamond doves are wonderful creatures, they lay in nest baskets in captivity and are an eye candy hence a delightful sight for a bird lover. Even the church doves with phenotypical rings around their necks are a wonder of nature. Pakistani khumra doves are kept as indigenous birds across the country in breeding programs.
A dove can soar the height of a falcon by spreading its wings. Beauty and innocence is also a weapon sometimes to stop the hunter pulling trigger of a shotgun.
Esteemed poet Ahmed Faraz Late very rightly says;
“Zinda rehnay ki tamana ho tou ho jaatay hain,
Fakhtaon kaay bhi kirdar Uqaboun walay”
Written by; Adv. Rao Shehryar Khan
Rao Khan Wala, Kasur
LLB (Hons) University of London
