Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
For Students of JNU
(Jawaharlal Nehru University)
like sirens
wailing through
night streets
they steal
the quiet
haven inside
your mind.
not to alert
you about the
nation lying
wounded in the
ambulance of
our youth’s
desperate protest
but to scatter
seeds of canard
so a forest fire
burns the truth
beneath the
lies.
they invade
the halls of justice
and crush
the voice of reason
but truth being
stranger than
fiction, truth will
rise like smoke
like the Phoenix
from the burning
embers of
a nation that will
not be held hostage
by a parliament
of rhetoric
and rogue politicking.
do they not know
“it is rain that
grows flowers
not thunder”?
it is enlightened
youth who
nurture nations
not those who sunder.
← Bina Sarkar Ellias