Poetry: Sangeeta Sharma

Sangeeta Sharma

Niagara Falls

They stole my heart away

Breath-taking, bewitching

Majestic and mesmerizing!

Flowing with the racy waters

Miles together

I rose and ebbed

I sighed and swayed

Moaned and heaved

Cascading down from the heights

Hitting below the boulders

Sprung up high as the spray

Sprinkled across the bay

Ensconced again in the depths

Again rollicking to the roar

Gyrating with the waves

Waltzing on the rainbow

What oomph!

Wowed and crazed

Gave my heart away!!!

Halcyon

A voluptuous lake rests                                       

Under the wooden bridge

Wide expanse of aquamarine

Till the reach of the eye

You gaze at it and gaze

Ceaseless, spellbound

Sipping droughts not of water

But of the enrapturing sight

Senses loosen,

Unwind

You feel healed and unbound

By the panoramic view

For more and more you crave

Under the open azure sky

Blue expanse ahead

And

Blue expanse above

Velvety sapphirine clots

Making a slow movement

In the sky

The super beatific sight!

Looking aloft and below

Is healing, inspiring

Heavenly

An epiphany:

Nature is Truth

And Truth, Nature

Nothing beyond

And Nothing beside!

Peacock

Not just one

It was a pair:

A peacock, a peahen

Walking and pecking in the grass

Of a plush neighbourhood.

It was sheer delight

To gawk at

The most beautiful bird

Colourful with oodles of grace

From such close quarters

With her shimmering blue and green plumage

The peahen takes a flight and

Settles on a branch

Of a jamun tree

Adorning the iridescent head crown

 Epitome of grace, pride, and beauty

But lo!

Suddenly drops from the tree

And instantly attacked by a dog below

The other develops tremors

And its neck twists.

Adherence to biosecurity measures:

Insecticides and herbicides,

Encroachment, poaching

And scarcity of water-

the main causes

Of the plummeting numbers

Calls for conservation measures.

Setu, January 2020