Sulphur Cosmos: A message

"Sulphur Cosmos: A message" by Sunil Sharma

Against the immensity of the sky

the vividness of the blue freckled with white,

stands

the Sulphur Cosmos as twins delicate

their stunning yellow kissed by a passing shadow

of a distant cloud, thus rendering it an odd mixture

of the golden- auburn blooming on tender green of

the slender stems;

the Sulphur Cosmos not dwarfed or intimidated by

the infinity stretched tight above,

the flowers are pretty to the eyes and home to the

birds and monarch butterflies.

The Sulphur Cosmos survives

harsh sun, droughts and pests or insects cannot

damage or destroy them, despite their fragility,

and that is the lesson we drive from this friendship flower

nothing should keep us down, whatever the adversity!

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Sunil Sharma is Mumbai-based senior academic, critic, literary editor and author with 19 published books: Six collections of poetry; two of short fiction; one novel; a critical study of the novel, and, eight joint anthologies on prose, poetry and criticism, and, one joint poetry collection. He is a recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ inaugural Poet of the Year award---2012. His poems were published in the prestigious UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, in the year 2015.

Sunil edits the English section of the monthly bilingual journal Setu published from Pittsburgh, USA:

 http://www.setumag.com/p/setu-home.html

For more details, please visit the blog:

http://www.drsunilsharma.blogspot.in/