Air-collapse

Posted by vivekanandjha 39 views Dana Disaster Anthology Picks, Flight 9J-992 To Lagos, Poetry

Jun 282012

In the blinking of an eye

their lifelong desires,

destinations and endeavours

reduced to fearful fire, spiraling smoke,

abysmal debris and flesh in fission,

making them appalling mechanical mixture.

From most blessed and blissful lot,

they witnessed themselves

showcase of junk-house, annihilation

and self-carved catastrophe,

accruing and multiplying existing number

of orphan, weak and dispossessed.

Some of them left

no trace of their ancestry and posterity

who could be empathized in this hour

of fatality, sadness and grief .

Rest of them turned their kith and kin

shocked, depressed and worried.

The tragedy testimonial of the truth:

None has control over death and doom.

Let them be prince and pauper,

they get grinded, slashed and slain

equally and evenly by almighty’s chopper.

Such incidents make mockery

of discovery, innovation and invention where

an aircraft remains no less than a flying bomb.

All over in one oblivion and explosion

and man turned no more than a tomb.

Such disasters justify the conviction:

Death is predetermined,

it has no enemy, no friend;

when, how, where and why

it makes one its own prey,

mentioned in none of the zodiac signs.

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Dr. Vivekanand Jha is a translator, editor and award winning poet from India. He is Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Certificate in Computer Hardware and Networking, MA and Ph. D in English. He is a contributing poet to Wavelengths – 2011 Savant Anthology of Poetry (USA) which has won first place in the 2011 London Book Festival. He has been Poetry Contest Winner-Third Place Winner for the poem “Hands Heave to Harm and Hamper” conducted by Beginners®, a documentary, graphic, nonfiction book series (USA). His poem, “Song of Woes” was featured in the 10 Selected Poems for Performance & 10 Selected Poems for Award in 2nd Korea-Nigeria Poetry Feast on 21st March 2012 organized by the Korean Cultural Centre Nigeria. He is the author of five books of poetry. He has also edited two critical anthologies on Indian English Novels. His works have been published in more than seventy five magazines round the world. Besides his poems have been chosen and published in more than fifteen poetry anthologies. He has more than twenty research and critical articles published in various national and international anthologies and referred journals. He is son of noted professor, poet and award winning translator Dr. Rajanand Jha (Crowned with Sahitya Akademi Award, New Delhi).

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