SUNIL SHARMA

 

 

The Unified Fields

 

The sky is electric blue.

Pulsating blocks

of raw

reds-oranges-purples

deepen

by the passing seconds;

tonal varieties

tossed around

form into some

primordial patterns

and motifs

source of mythologies

old and new.

 

Electric energy!

 

Fresh-faced breeze

waltzes playfully

over

the intense blue

of the seas and greens

of

a slumbering earth,

the birds are awake with their songs

served fresh every morning;

The heavens and earth

embrace, diversities distinct, yet

submerged, the entire

cosmos is renewed in an instant, the

viewer becomes part of the divine design.

 

Watcher of Lake Ontario

 

The man sits and watches

quietly,

the ebb, flow of Lake Ontario

and the mysteries contained

within the murky depths.

 

The sun hangs low. The gulls

soar above the dark-blue mass

in motion, bright circles in the clear

sky,

the bearded man is stock-still, feet

tucked under warm sands, eyes fixed,

in Zen meditation maybe,

observing the rhythms of the eternal flow;

the waves

rise up

roll down,

wet the shoreline, pebbles

and twigs, only to

return to their original home,

 

each wave, separate,

pushed forward

by

another crested one

that follows immediately;

forming, dissipating,

re-forming

the gigantic water body;

ceaseless motion, a dynamic

alfresco spectacle

of

calming sounds, kinesis and brilliant colours.

 

SUNIL SHARMA

 

SUNIL SHARMA, PhD (English), is an academic, critic, literary editor and author with 28 published books: Eight collections of poetry; five of short fiction; one novel; a critical study of the novel, and, 10 joint anthologies on prose, poetry and criticism, and, two joint poetry collection and one joint fiction collection. A recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ Inaugural Poet of the Year award---2012. Winner, among others, of the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the political novel Minotaur. His poems were published in the prestigious UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, in the year 2015. Sunil edits the English section of the monthly bilingual journal Setu published from Pittsburgh, USA.