Pragmaticism
by Sunil Sharma / June 26th, 2022
Life—
A dance of light and
shadow
hoping for the best out of the
worst, always or
occasionally, even when the sun is
down and the moon, not up, yet,
on a bleak horizon;
It is a restive movement
one place to another
like a tramp
from one situation
into another, equally
hopeless
one freight train onto
another
one burnt-out city into
another—Ukraine is just a name.
Trying to catch a smile from
a child
being deported to a treeless camp
with guarded gates
or,
at worst, trying to pluck a lonesome
rose
in the rubble and dust of
a block
of the
bombed-out homes,
with ugly, gaping
wounds.
Sunil Sharma is an academic, critic, literary editor and author with 29 published books: Eight collections of poetry; five of short fiction; two novels; a critical study of the novel, and, 10 joint anthologies on prose, poetry and criticism, and, two joint poetry collection and one joint fiction collection. Recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ Inaugural Poet of the Year award in 2012. Winner, among others, of the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award for Excellence (2022) for the novel
Minotaur. His poems were published in the UN project
Happiness, The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, (2015).
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This article was posted on Sunday, June 26th, 2022 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.
