Poetry

Snapshots of a dream

Abu Taher Mojumder
The steering guides well
Those ripples bordered with
Endless greenery
Thick, gloomy, sloping skyward
Sudden horns and window above
Beckoning the clouds
Seagulls breaking the solitude
A face illusive across the sills
or not at all or glimpses of Rose
No no Ruth gentle ripples
Flowing eternally across the borders. Concoction of chemical weapons
Trampling of civilizations
Blood flows ripples soaked by
Sand and earth and Hawks
Seas churned with patriots
The glamour of tears children shot
Children away don't matter
Lauras and Cherrys and charities
Mocking debris of skeletons But gentle ripples flow on
bordered with greeneries
Footsteps and horns disturb
The solitude
Discovery of relics
Flight to other habitations
Across the void
Menai Strait, hanging bridge pier
and beaumaris those voices
the ups and downs
And a heart breaking
Prof. Abu Taher Mojumder teaches English literature and is a well-known writer.