Shady Camouflage

by Ananya S. Guha / November 9th, 2025

There is history,
Replete with wars
And man going to Mars
Scattered bodies in luminous
Skies lighting up starry
Nights
Now battles are short in
Fits and starts
Continuing for days
The science of art
Can victory come
In a day or two?
To kill me and you
Look at the blood
Look at the blood
In darkened hood-
Our depravity
Sense of justifiability
Where is the peace
You talked about?
Find its whereabouts,
Lost among heaps
Of dead snakes
And shady camouflage.

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 9th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.