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| Sangeeta Sharma |
The green pines call
standing tall
Crimson cover
bowl over
with its regal oeuvre
The amber, diluted tinge
and
Acer rubrum, the flaming scarlet maples
tug
at the chordae tendineae
and heal
Like an immaculate portrait
designed
by the celestial.
Sassafras, oaks and beeches
mellowing
in the autumn,
unerring,
reveal:
Change is ubiquitous
Age, season or nature
The glad grace of the face
fades
but the pilgrim soul is
perpetual
In the casement of the physical.
Katabatic winds
winnowing
the fuscous leaves in hordes
to their interim graves.
The bolstered multi-hued grove,
that guards
the treasure of nature
like sentries
Accurst to turn into wailing brunette skeletals
pleading resurrection
from the upward heavens
Frail beings, expire
identically,
and then reincarnate!
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 collections of poems, edited six anthologies on poetry, fiction and criticism (solo and joint) and two workbooks on communication.
She hosts Setu’s Limited Video Series of Literary and Critical Conversations available on YouTube.
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