I. Divine Light Unleashes Inner Harmonies
The topaz blue of the Toronto sky can transport one to the luminous regions of solitude.
I. Divine Light Unleashes Inner Harmonies
Some moonscapes!
Evoke the magic
of lost kingdoms!
In a Toronto sky
of topaz blue
streaked with thick
strips of virgin white,
hangs a full-faced
moon
over the
skyline: the
irregular
silent
phantoms
looming nocturnally.
The orb
renews its
old being
gets reborn
every night;
washes
the farm
and urban lands
in its milk
of
tender light
softens
contours and voids;
the doors open up
lead
to the
luminous regions of
solitude, on
such
wonderous nights.
II. Inspiration From An Unlikely Realm
Running over the fences
in the Brampton area,
a black squirrel, nut in
the mouth, moves swiftly
over barriers.
Balances food with
the
dexterity of
a natural acrobat.
The tiny worker
delights
the young
immigrants
from Punjab.
They
pause
take
deep breath
resume walking
in the ankle-deep snow.
III. The Art of the Brown-Black Snow
The snow carries its own
field of energy and visual
patterns.
Fast and thick
solidity of different
shades, forms
and mass;
gets
shovelled to clear
the sidewalks;
mini hills
of white
freckled with
brown and black
spots, a strange
domain of
colours,
vitality,
aesthetics.
The iconic
countries of
H. Avercamp,
Gogh
Monet
become
alive
in diverse
timelines
of viewing
intersections.
IV. Anticipating Spring As A Strategy
The trees, bare-ribbed,
shiver as the homeless
in the frigid air.
Mid-March but
the winter refuses
to go, a
patient-on-the-catheter, stubbornly
clinging to life.
The snow-showers
a
haze of torn papers
from
the monochromatic sky.
A city
survives the gloom
of late winter, long, hard
and sad
imagines the
joys, scents and sounds
of a promised spring
delayed-delivery
due to
human actions.
(Toronto-based author-academic-editor, Sunil Sharma has published 23 creative and critical books, joint and solo. He edits the Setu journal)