Poetry on Solar Eclipse & More…

By Prithvijeet Sinha

SHADOWLANDS
(Inspired by the global solar eclipse on April 8th, 2024) 

Tomorrow 
the shadowlands 
will 
have their edict 
up 
in the sky
with 
the whole world's prior knowledge.

The Sun 
and The Moon --
those two fastidious 
and ever at loggerheads 
to mark their showy turns --
will indulge 
in their sibling rivalry 
of ages.

It will be a sight.

The earth will be omnipresent,
pooling resources 
for this compromise 
between two 
arch-rivals,
pulling 
in a tie 
as the final verdict.

It will all be over
before we know it.

EXPEDITION

There is a halt in
the expedition.

From not so far 
away,
a decaying skeleton
shrieks,
its bones
gradually 
ground to a paste.

Sordidly,
the remnants
of privation
now feebly
agitate
for all of us. 

A blood-soaked spray
emerges
from a songwriter's 
torso.

The day has commenced. 
Rain clouds
cry 
tears of blood
today.

Prithvijeet Sinha, is a resident of the cultural epicenter of Lucknow. He has published poetry, musings on the city, cinema in anthologies and journals of national and international repertoire as well as a blog. His life-force resides in writing, in the art of self-expression.

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