The feathered Mozart

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The feathered Mozart
A Black-crested Bulbul
A 7-inch canvas of
Multi-hued beauty,
Sits on her slender legs,
On a hard transmission line,
In want of a tree,
Still issuing forth—
A merry song to the deaf
World on this warm
March morning;
The trilling notes floating,
In the ethereal space
Inhabited by such tiny fliers,
That were, the sweet and natural notes,
Heard once
By a
Wandering Wordsworth
In the picturesque Lake District and
A young restive Shelley
Dreaming of better worlds;
The same notes,
Now,
Are heard but
By few alert folks
Across the commercialized continents
And dysfunctional homes;
To-day,
In an age of raiders and extreme
Climate changes,
These tiny sugary notes
Constitute a rare symphony
Of various tones and scales,
That , soon,will be heard no more.

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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/

2 thoughts on “The feathered Mozart”

  1. Louis Kasatkin

    ” The feathered Mozart ” struck me with its visual intensity, like one of those movie screen slo-mo tracking shots , where consciousness is isolated in a unique moment of realisation,doubt and regret;everything honed down and compressed,before exploding into the very next moment when the narrative resumes at normal speed.

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    1. Sunil Sharma

      Dear Louis,
      Your comments are so enlightening and refreshingly beautiful as the vistas of snow-capped mountains or the alpine country—always producing newer perspectives and meanings on each subsequent re-visit.
      I find them more intelligent than the original posts…as far as my poems are concerned.
      Thanks a lot—for encouraging words, as always.

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