The racing grey clouds
shepherding the incandescent, circular, bright moon
in the sky
as if a coy, bedecked bride,
covered with a silvery veil
being sashayed in a wooden palanquin
by the rolling, cloud-bearers.
Or a bride in all resplendence being taken to the altar
by her giggling, playful muckers
The lone stars,
like twinkling confetti,
celebrate the celestial connubiality
Gentle wisps of winds witness this spectacle
from the fringes as ethereal attendees
The overcast sky wrapped up in a velvety,
cloudy cloak – a contrasting coulisse,
emphasize the lunar bride’s supremacy
in the grandeur heavenly.
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Sangeeta Sharma
Picture Sandeep Kumar Mishra
Author’s Bio:
Sangeeta Sharma, a Toronto-based academic, is the senior editor of Setu, a bilingual, international peer-reviewed journal and former head, English, in a
degree college affiliated to the University of Mumbai.
She has authored a book on Arthur Miller, three collection of poems, edited seven anthologies on poetry, fiction and criticism (solo and joint) and two workbooks on communication.
A nemophilist at heart, writing poetry as a Romanticist exalts her.
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