Earnest prayer

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The workers
Completing the
Open drain,
Mid-day May sun
Shining on their
Heads,
Sweat coursing down
Bodies taut,
Hot wind fanning
Glistening bodies black,
Swirling dust settling
In their humble bread;
O my Muse!
Let my poetry
Be soaked in
Their labour- sweat,
And broadcast
This real scent
Everywhere.

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About Sunil Sharma

Sunil Sharma is Mumbai-based senior academic, critic, literary editor and author with 22 published books: Seven collections of poetry; three 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 website: https://sunil-sharma.com/

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