Fish? golden silvery, fish? blue violet
Lustre of bright diamonds fish in millions
Coloured yearnings
Razor-slitting pace splitting the sea into halves
O’ irresistible!
With the flying fins
Shrouding even the sea’s wide expanse
Thwarting the summit-caressing waves
O’ eternal coloured yearning
Creation’s first offspring
Fish? golden silvery, fish? blue violet
Hued by birth hued by colours and
by innumerable deaths
In varied fish-traps
Nets, in the heart of the Ghiladhari,*
– yet immortal.
O’ fish o’ eternal fish
*Ghiladhari – a tributary of the Brahmaputra.
Mahim Bora (6 July 1924 – 5 August 2016) was an Indian writer and educationist from Assam.He was elected as a president of the Assam Sahitya Sabha held in 1989 at Doomdooma. He was awarded with most notably with the Padma Shri in 2011, the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2001 and the Assam Valley Literary Award in 1998. Assam Sahitya Sabha conferred its highest honorary title Sahityacharyya on him in 2007.
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