Sunil Sharma Returns

Tonight I'd like to return to poetry with Dr. Sunil Sharma's contemplative poem about human experience.

Sublime changes and a sick bed

---Sunil Sharma

Beautiful!

The dew drops

Sliding off the blades of grass.

Morning, early Delhi sun

Hiding behind a mass 

Of grey clouds

Bloated.

The baby beams

Light up a December sky

In vertical streaks of 

Orange-gold.

The windows, shut, not 

draped. The glass catches the

bright colours on 

The misted surfaces.

The catheter-attached body

Opens up

Instantly to the new sensation

Of light and scents wafting in.

Red eyes blink and slowly 

Focus on the splendour 

Outside.

The sun is out there to meet and kiss

The frigid earth and take her in a warm hug.

The cyclical routine goes on:

Darkness

Dawn

Day

Dusk

Night.

Never seen earlier, now understood so well.

Dew drops, crystalline. Vapors stick to 

Grass that bends in the breeze,

Now rough, now playful.

Dew drops melt under the 

Soft light. Sun destroys the overnight gloom.

The claustrophobia of the cold night...over.

The terminally-ill patient feels

Refreshed

Re-charged

For the pain

Pain-killers

Tests, visits

The battles of mind-body ahead

Amid rising hopes and despair

And daily prayers.

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Author-bio: 

Sunil Sharma is a 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/

Let's start with the Woody Shaw Quintet's "It All Comes Back to You":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDauSY77NB4

I'll also play his "Love Dance": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtzNEN0CFU8

I'll finish with the Paul Motian Trio's version of "Misterioso":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaY1GVeHqKw

Enjoy!