Four Poems by Sunil Sharma

 

Mural 

Dawn 

bleeds on the  

splintered 

window-glass, of 

an abandoned warehouse, 

along the 

railway tracks, overgrown 

with grass. 

 

The wounds 

raw and purple 

reflected  

by 

the glass, a Banksy 

painting in real-time.

 

 

New Composition

 

Squirrels 

with erect tufts 

of  

bushy tails 

 

cut across the wide 

yards  

of the old farmer’s house, 

 

a mass of the greys and  

blacks  

moves in the sun, 

a vaudeville staged.

 

 

Parallel Company 

 

Geese  

in the wintery sky  

of Toronto, 

 

the flights, well-coordinated 

movements  

against the sleet, 

 

young workers 

march in step 

on 

the frozen ground, giving 

company.

 

 

Severe beauty 

 

On the bare branches 

hang the 

 

remnants of the last snow, 

lost pendants. 

The blobs of white 

uneasy 

on the brown limbs 

of  

the thorny tree, the 

last maple leaves  

flutter, 

in melancholy, as the 

trail winds down to a forsaken 

cottage, near the lake.

Sunil Sharma - A humble word-worshipper: catcher of elusive sounds, meanings and images.

Published 27 creative and critical books--- joint and solo. A winner of, among others, the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the novel Minotaur.

His poems were included in the prestigious UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, 2015. Editor of the monthly Setu journal (English): https://www.setumag.com/p/setu-home.html

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