ANANYA S GUHA - POEM

​Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in North East India. He is currently Regional Director at the Indira Gandhi National Open University. He has been writing poetry and publishing his poems for over thirty years.

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The river lapsed 
Into aeons of time
Bird plummeted into sea
And orgy of violence
As man did dance death 
The river did not understand 
That flashes of genius was born
The river mourned
Birds and animals died
There was mayhem 
Man did the war dance
Man did the death dance
The river
The birds
The animals were silent
They decided to be slaves
To man
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