Cold, Cold Wars

by Ananya S. Guha / January 10th, 2016

It’s a cold war
somewhere in South Asia
or is it India?
For ages, they have been telling
us, the sages, that good neighbours
are ambassadors
of ill will
and, of course, goodwill
but the cold war persisted
though some insisted that this
was an aberration
mere lack of concentration
in between there were wars
not cold but burning
like the tiger burning
now things are not so bright
we are losing the inner light
and the cold war has reached minus degrees
like deathly squawking of geese.

Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in North East India, where he was born and brought up. He has been writing and publishing his poetry for the last forty years. His poetry has been published in both electronic and print formats such as: Indian Literature, Other Voices, Osprey Journal, Glasgow Review, The Literary Nest, Up The Staircase, Asia Writes, Art Arena, Praxis Online, Muse India, Your One Phone Call, In Between Hangovers, The Peeking Cat Magazine, Post Colonial Text among others. He has also written widely on educational and social matters. He has ten collections of poetry and his poetry has been anthologized in various collections of Indian poetry in English. He holds a doctoral on the novels of William Golding. Read other articles by Ananya S..

This article was posted on Sunday, January 10th, 2016 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.