"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!
***
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:
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its exhilarating sir. a delicate compostion with subtle touches.
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