Sunday, November 29, 2015

The Lovers of the Dark--By Aju Mukhopadhyay--India

The Lovers of the Dark

Darkness keeps them stark
Bright light kills
They live in the caves dark
The aboriginal heritage of the earth
Troglobites.
Man has abandoned project mining
Left the rocky caves wishing
To protect the lovers of the dark
Near Ponnawonica in Australia,
One of the earthly sites.

Aju Mukhopadhyay, a bilingual award winning poet, author and critic, writes fictions and essays too. He has authored 32 books and received several poetry awards from India and USA besides other honours. Recently he has received Albert Camus Centenary Writing Award, 2013 from Canada / Cyprus. He is a regular contributor to various magazines and e-zines in India and abroad. He is in the editorial and advisory board of some important literary journals. His poems and short stories have been widely anthologised and translated.

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