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Poetry: Mdantsane Nights - Poems of Mdantsane

November 05, 2009
Amitabh Mitra

lulama hurries home
mdantsane enters a war zone
an evening creeping into a shelter
of spoken shadows
a dying night screams somewhere
the last breath snatched without pity
happiness now brims in the slaughter
of the unforgotten.

Poem and Drawing by Amitabh Mitra

An orthopaedic surgeon in a busy hospital in East London, South Africa, I actually belong to Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, its long summers and hectic politics. I edit a print poetry journal called 'A Hudson View', a journal on African arts called 'Inyathi' and dream of going back to Gwalior. My blog on South African Arts is http://www.amitabhmitra.blogspot.com/

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Poetry: Mdantsane Nights - Poems of Mdantsane

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November 27, 2009
01:24 PM

beautiful poem...

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November 27, 2009
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Thanks a lot Kashkin

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