The two-parted notes
outside
an open window,
unlock a sepia-tinted instant,
a voice, soft, frail, pleads:
“Baby, I need your loving (I really need you)”;
—What a beautiful song!
The hall, where they daily assemble
hoping for some mini family gathering, some
reels of quick arrivals and farewells
for
social media consumption later on,
the inmates spiritedly chorus the vintage of 1964,
startling the staff for its fresh appeal.
The trilling sounds from the treetop
release
a volcano dormant,
emotions surge, burn the screen; the verse finished
by
a feverish mind, seeking lucidity on a stormy afternoon;
the raw scarlets, browns, blacks combine
in a flitting figure,
blur, then come back, and
drop straight
onto a large canvas, finish
the pastoral scene, left half-complete:
the winged visitor over a white cottage;
sun-lit deck; woodland; an uncoiling river, where the Otter families
once swam with the Canada geese, on scented mornings, kissed
by
the shivering shadows of firs and pines, before the advent of the
condos that flattened sanctuaries for human encroachments;
Northern Cardinal!
Dear friend, the crested inspiration,
in
joyous flights of freedom,
your songs and colours follow wherever you go
revive
dead tissues and soils, like the vernal rains.
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Sunil Sharma
Picture Kushal Poddar
Bio: Sunil Sharma
A humble word-worshipper: catcher of elusive sounds, meanings, images.
Published 28 creative and critical books— joint and solo.
Winner, among others, of the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the political novel Minotaur.
Poems included in the UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, 2015.
He is the managing editor of Setu bilingual journal (English) that has more than 5-million views so far:
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