Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Sunil Sharma- A Poem


Words.
Fugitives.
Same.
Both refuse to emerge from hiding places into the open.
Coaxing
Threats do not work.

Sometimes, 
they 
tu-mb-le ou-t and dis-per-se......
like the heavy traffic 
un-clogged 
after a signal failure
in the money-crazy New York.

Dystopia?

Catch them, if you can.
Otherwise, they scatter like the
bullets of a suicide bomber
---that is scary!---
 looks like us!



Mumbai-based, Sunil Sharma is a widely-published Indian critic, poet, literary interviewer, editor, translator, essayist and fiction writerHe has already published three collections of poetry, one collection of short fiction, one novel and co-edited five books so far. His six short stories and the novel Minotaur were recently prescribed for the undergraduate classes under the Post-colonial Studies, Clayton University, Georgia, USA. He is a recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ inaugural Poet of the Year award---2012. Recently his poems were published in the UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree-2015.

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