Sangeeta’s poem, exclusively for Different Truths explores the chaotic beauty of the sky before a storm. blending playful and menacing scenes, evoking various emotions.
Post a tornado-forecast The smoky grey thunderous clouds look scary Like abusive relationships causing inner turmoil-making life awry While the sunlit side of the sky, vie The playful, peeping, ruddy sun playing hide and seek Like kids hiding behind the tree And then, when caught, jumping and laughing with glee Firmament: fragmented, frothy, and speckled Its hues, the texture, the pace Make the people feel bouncy and stimulate Or petrified or postulate Pregnant with manifold images and thoughts A new design, for each set of eyes, a new canvas Sometimes, like angry rolling waves, cottony rugs and sometimes like marble pillars and rocks In the blink of an eye, palaces Or utopian terraces Fathomless, foaming, freezing, drooping and ameliorating They beguile and stun With their splendour and stimulation!
Picture design by Anumita Roy
Dr. Sangeeta Sharma, a Toronto-based academic, is the Senior Editor of Setu, a bilingual, international peer-reviewed journal and former head, English, in a degree college affiliated to the University of Mumbai. She has authored a book on Arthur Miller, two collections of poems, edited six anthologies on poetry, fiction, and criticism (solo and joint) and two workbooks on communication. Currently, she hosts Setu’s Limited Video Series of Literary and Critical Conversations available on YouTube.
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