ANANYA S GUHA - POEMS

Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in North East India. He has been writing and publishing his poetry for the last thirty five years and his poems have been published widely both in India and abroad. He holds a doctoral degree on the novels of William Golding.

​Stop Quietly- Life In Times of Corona

​Stop quietly by these hills
don’t talk, they are sleeping
where are the streams 
which gurgled when the hills 
wept at man’s madness
or when blood smeared streets?
And we were at home quietly 
weeping for these hills as those
steadfast rocks stood guard 
as heavy sentinels
now we are at home once again
as the virus touches these timeless hills 
their virulence might touch us
And babbling streams will be quiet.

​Within

​Wait, 
time is endearingly near
in those spaces where
these hills live, even 
breathe within tiny 
holes, which smudge them

Wait,
eternity climbs on these hills
and green blue hues
appear, disappear
childhood was these hills
And, manhood looks within
as they, searing  watch, wait

Wait, 
have the hills changed?
in a mindscape which never changes. 
Or, see their changes
Unchanging, unquiet?

Within.