SUNIL SHARMA

SUNIL SHARMA

SUMMER BREEZE

In the meadows,

The wind sings a song

Heard in summers in Europe.

A kind of rustling of silk

In a well-appointed boudoir;

The rushing of a rapid breath

Playing with the trees, in a dark clump

In Billund, Denmark.

The breeze rising joyously

Like the musical notes to be

Played fast, briskly and with gusto

By a mystical hands.

PHANTOM ROAD

The moon-lit

Country -lane

Ahead.

Hungrily hugged

By moving shadows.

Music of the

Silvery trees

Fusing with the hum

Of a dying river---

Heard far-off

In a troubled sleep

By an urban mind.

PREMONITIONS

A broad leaf

Fine-veined

Rusted-brown

Wind-blown.

Gets stuck

In the left-hand wiper of a

Car on a

Narrow strip of an uneven road,

Officially called a highway.

The leaf in agony, flutters, gasps.

An insect caught in a spider-web in a

Damp room, strange sounds on

Moonless nights.

A kissing- web in the dark place

Eerie sensation; Crawling of facial skin!

A fresh burst, toxic air

It escapes.

Death-pale, grinning, that receding leaf.

Huge shivers down the spine

Of the passenger,

Suffering from pain

in the L3- L4 segment.

IN THE COLD

A pigeon perched on the cable

Shrunk within its grey feathers

Head bent inside the underbelly

To beat the cold draughts.

It is 10 am and 10- degree Celsius.

A man, grey stubble, head bent, sits hunched

On the tiled pavement in the Connaught Place

In a sun that hardly warms the air

He clutches a torn quilt around shrunk shoulders

Blankly stares at the high-rises and frenzied vehicles.

Both--- pathetic figures---un-cared!

Welcome, dear disenfranchised to Delhi of the new Moguls!

SUNIL SHARMA

SUNIL SHARMA is Mumbai-based senior academic, critic, literary editor and author with 19 published books: Six collections of poetry; two of short fiction; one novel; a critical study of the novel, and, eight joint anthologies on prose, poetry and criticism, and, one joint poetry collection. He is a recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ inaugural Poet of the Year award---2012. 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: http://www.setumag.com/p/setu-home.html. For more details, please visit the blog:http://www.drsunilsharma.blogspot.in/