{"id":6533,"date":"2018-08-06T13:04:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2019-02-11T07:58:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T07:58:25","slug":"not-happening-a-poem-by-ananya-s-guha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/not-happening-a-poem-by-ananya-s-guha\/","title":{"rendered":"Not  Happening. A Poem by Ananya S Guha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely the way it happens<br \/>\nlovelier the way things don&#8217;t happen<br \/>\nin an acrobatic murmur<br \/>\nI saw dissent in a storm<br \/>\na cup in wither in the morn<br \/>\nthe battering of life is simply<br \/>\nan aroma, things happening<br \/>\nnot<br \/>\nso, bolster fashion<br \/>\nthere is in it the mythic,<br \/>\nthe epistolary, then the<br \/>\ngiants will look at the other way<br \/>\na whodunit? a whodunit of the<br \/>\nwhodunit?<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t know that surprises melt into<br \/>\nlaughter, then anger<br \/>\nI am a bit composite now<br \/>\nafter writing a poem.<br \/>\nThey do not know it is laden<br \/>\nwith color and tears<br \/>\ndrinking a few beers<br \/>\nand the way this happens<br \/>\nactually, come to think of it<br \/>\nin slow sterile responses<br \/>\n( punctuated with heavy breathing)<br \/>\nshould not.<\/p>\n<p>Ananya S Guha<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/in-mornings-a-poem-by-ananya-s-guha\/dsc_0018\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0018-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0018-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0018-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0018-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0018-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0018-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0018-450x675.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0018-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0018-900x1350.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ananya S Guha has been born and brought up in Shillong, India and works in India&#8217;s National Open University, the Indira Gandhi National Open University. His poems in English have been published world wide. He also writes for newspapers and magazines\/ web zines on matters ranging from society and politics to education. He holds a doctoral degree on the novels of William Golding. He edits the poetry column of <em>The Thumb Print Magazine<\/em>, and has published seven collections of poetry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robin Ouzman Hislop<\/strong> is Editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\">Poetry Life and Times<\/a> his publications include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Babble-Souk-Robin-Ouzman-Hislop\/dp\/1329636953\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1506012222&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=All+the+Babble+of+the+Souk\"><em>All the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=Cartoon+Molecules\"><em>Cartoon Molecules<\/em> <\/a>collected poems and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Key-Mist-Guadalupe-Grande\/dp\/1365453006\/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1506012852&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=Key+of+Mist\"><em>Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a>the recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/carmen-crespo\/tesserae\/paperback\/product-23327341.html\"><em>Tesserae<\/em> <\/a>translations from Spanish poets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=673209856\">Guadalupe Grande <\/a>and Carmen Crespo visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquillrelle.com\/authorrobin.htm\">Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. 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