Myth of Ashes

by Ananya S. Guha / November 30th, 2025

A bomb blast rips a locality apart
Everything emanated
from an unsuspecting
Vicinity. The busy locality heard smashes of window panes and a deafening sound
The silence after that was equally deafening
Silences follow spaces of death
All uniformed in silence, blood soaked
A bomb blast rips the body
And signs a terrorist warning of more to come, blood after all
Has no dominion
Death has…
It all happened in the Red Fort area
Of New Delhi known for its historical sorority
But centuries old blood of an antediluvian
Character only resuscitated the myth of ashes.

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, November 30th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.