1
Let not waves hamper
ripples do not matter
look, outside
cloud lines burst
2
Little children play
hop skip
my heart beats
hops, skips then
weeps
3
Bullets are easy
to get
shooting is not
guns smoulder
clouds, which is
what
I do not know
4
I know only
that in your
love
there is fire
weeping
rain pouring
smoke smouldering
5
Do not tell me
that ashes are
ridden of hope
in father’s funeral
pyre,
I saw his face twitch
6
Journeying back
into time
is fast forward
in life.
Ananya S Guha has been born and brought up in Shillong, India and works in India’s National Open University, the Indira Gandhi National Open University. His poems in English have been published world wide. He also writes for newspapers and magazines/ web zines on matters ranging from society and politics to education. He holds a doctoral degree on the novels of William Golding. He edits the poetry column of The Thumb Print Magazine, and has published seven collections of poetry.
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times his publications include All the Babble of the Souk and Cartoon Molecules collected poems and Key of Mist the recently published Tesserae translations from Spanish poets Guadalupe Grande and Carmen Crespo visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (Leeds University) .