Godly Power of the Ungodly
by Ananya S. Guha / July 12th, 2026
We will remain in this pool
Of fear, where voices raise
Stealthily in open spaces
Punctuated by weeping
Of children, women
And night sounds of rapacity
Kill is the word in our effete vocabulary
Blood is the visual
The more obvious part of lives
Binding clear open skies
And diligent murmur of
Skyscrapers happening right above
Who walks across dreams
Whose dreams are these
Fetish of lust
Can you help me to define power
So that I obliterate it
In the ghetto of love?
In the meantime voices crackle
A hush, a sound of animals prowling
Footsteps leave trail of blood
I unearth binaries
In worlds of fantasy
Can you define it, power I mean;
The godly power of the ungodly?
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.
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This article was posted on Sunday, July 12th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
