By Sunil Sharma
There was this dogged donkey
befriended by a supple monkey.
The unusual pair
roamed freely, everywhere,
in the silent city,
resented by the bipedal monkeys
and donkeys, real,
long- imprisoned in
their smelly dens,
by a new global master,
invisible,
and, to the wonderment
of the duo,
this dreaded dictator
called strangely
as COVID-19,
in the year 2020!
Sunil Sharma is Mumbai-based senior academic, critic, literary editor and author with 21 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.
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