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)
