1.
In moonlight
The river is sighing
a torrid love affair.
2.
Dew
on rose petals
Beauty is delicately fragile.
(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA
In moonlight
The river is sighing
a torrid love affair.
2.
Dew
on rose petals
Beauty is delicately fragile.
(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA
1.
In soft rain
A frog croaking its amorous call
The air smells of love.
2.
The full moon-
Lamentation of
Lover's longings.
(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA
Flowers-
fragile beauty
Lover's delight.
2.
Late November afternoon
The sky wears
a sad look.
3.
Last rain
in the summer
Lover's goodbye kiss.
(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA
Tanks roll on without hesitation
Shelling goes unabated
Air becoming thick with human blood
Flowers are groaning
Birds dashing to the other side
of the border
Fruits are rotten in orchards
Bridges breaking suddenly
Communication is the casualty
Children taking joyride in their toys
completely unaware of the sirens blaring out imminent destruction
War is immortal.
There are other ways to protest a war
than mass rallies in Berlin.
A band playing Mozart
in a dilapidated church.
An anonymous artist making murals in the rubbles of what was once a thriving city.
How naive it is to create beauty out of destruction !
Each piece of ruins is a helpless testimony to our collective failures.
(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA
Rocks-
dry bones
of Civilization.
2.
Snow falling steadily
Leaves bathed in whiteness
Warm memories of love.
(C). - MRITYUNJAY JHA
Birds desperately flying over the rubbles scattered everywhere A mother searching her son suffering from terminal illness The unborn babie...