Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya, 'The Poetry Of The Earth Is Never Dead'

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Cross-post from war_poetry:

The Poetry Of The Earth Is Never Dead

True that the poetry of the earth is never dead
The grasshopper and the cricket testify that
But another great war will take place

It will a nuclear one I am sure
That will be the end of grasshopper and cricket
That will be the end of the poetry of earth

Presently with another great war
our dear earth will turn into a piece of charcoal in a moment
to dissolve in the space

Thank you Herr Einstein
Thank you Oppenheimer
Thank you Gamow

Thanks to the disinterested curiosity of science
To me the meanest flower that blows
tells me what man has made of the earth

By Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya


(Reference to John Keats, 'Grasshopper And Cricket')