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STONES- Poetry by guest author- Guna Moran

Updated: Jan 6, 2023



By beating and pounding

Stones can be made only smaller

But never made any bigger


Stones normally have no home

They lie around anywhere


Run over by vehicles

Stones don’t get flattened

Pedestrians tread on them

Yet no skin is broken


Pounded by the hammer

Smaller and smaller they turn

Even then we call them

Hard cruel and so on


Stones are eternal

As they can turn smaller instantly

For the good of others

(The beneficent do not die)


No lasting aesthetic is attainable without sculpture

In every age stone sculpture proves best

Still we find it hard to easily believe that

The eternal stone is all in all the glory of humans

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Tr.© Nirendra Nath Thakuria


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Stones

by Guna Moran



Guna Moran is an internationally acclaimed Assamese poet and book reviewer. His poems have been published in 200 hundred international magazines, journals, webzines, blogs, newspapers, and anthologies. Some of them are Indian Literature, Indian Poetry Review, Indian Review, Indian Periodical, Muse India, Outlook India, World Contemporary Poets Vol 1, World Poetry Yearbook 2022, International Writer's Journal, International Times Magazine, AZAHAR Revista Poetica, The Poet Magazine, The Global Youth Review, Whatcom Watch Newspaper, Spillword, Merak Magazine, Quidditty, Lovina 103, Indiana University Press, The California Times Newspaper, Poetry Hall, The Piker Press, Bario Blues Press, Northeastern University Journal, Elements Magazine, The Tiger Moth Magazine. He won the Creator of Justice Award 2020 for the International Human Rights Art Festival and had a chance to read poetry at Frankfurt Book Fair 2020 (Digital edition). His poems have already been translated into Croatian, Tagalog (Philippines), Burmese, Swahili (Kenya), Indonesian, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Macedonian, Chinese, Ukrainian, Russian, Hebrew, Turkish, Tamil, Telegu, Marathi, Urdu, Gujrati, Arabic, Bengali. He has published three poetry books to his credit. They are - When the Tree Weeps, Time Will Write History on You, El Amor - Love on the Rocks (Jointly). He had been invited to join the poetry program organized by America, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Mumbai, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, West Bangla, Panorama International Literature Festival 2022, and many more.






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