Excellent poetry by Sunil Sharma

Literary Revelations is thrilled to present you with the poetry of Dr. Sunil Sharma,

Bio in the words of Dr. Sunil Sharma

A humble word-worshipper: catcher of elusive sounds, meanings, images.

Published 28 creative and critical books— joint and solo.

Winner, among others, of the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the political novel Minotaur.

Poems included in the UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, 2015.

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Tracks of Time

Coffee beans 
unlock 
secret corridors!

They carry condensed histories
and
journeys, old and new, unveiled
in the present instant, unbidden
fragments, dusted off, souvenirs
dipped in the language of dreams

Aroma drifts
over 
the November fog, enters
a Brampton-basement stealthily,

tickles
the nostrils of the
occupant, half-asleep, muttering
things in Tamil.

A palm-fringed house
surfaces 
from the murky depths
of 
memory where time
resides in liquid form,

a fishing village of
red-tiles, spires and a 
colonial fort in disrepair
float up, dimmed by the rains,

the beach with the palm trees
and an upturned boat, beside
the beer shack, on the very edge
of a pearly sea, once haunted
by 
the ghosts of empire, and,

the clock alarm goes off
in shrill notes, the land recedes, you
wake up in another timeline.

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Recall

The crystals drop
from the heavens
in big drops, they
dribble down the
misted window-panes
in a rented house
of
an immigrant family, in a suburb
of Ontario, a family with big dreams.

Drops! These connect with another
lost moment, elsewhere, drift off
the sea in tide, the
tiny drops
on the forehead
of the old Ma, wiped with veined
hands, in a dark kitchen, busy with the masalas,
as the family waits, on a humid Mumbai morning
for the brunch; simultaneity of time-space
packed
in the tiny drops of rain.

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