Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Yuyutsu Sharma's "Jasmine Jewels" inspired by American photographer, Julie Williams-Krishnan's photograph at "Live Encounters", Ireland's leading online magazine


Jasmine Jewels
Inspired by Julie Williams Krishnan’s photograph


Translucent sparks
 of compassion,

quiet, impenetrable
feathers of light,

only fools would
attempt to smash

their indestructible cores
with sledge hammers.

The white jasmine
jewels have traveled

centuries of soft
sleep to arrive here

and nestle like little lambs
between human and divine feet,

tousled, nameless
face of the animal vehicle

beside the frozen feet,
the only clue to the deserts of darkness

they tried to plough through
to overcome the demon that rode

a wolf’s back to drink up
raging oceans of humanity.

Only the quietly menstruating
jasmine flowers survived in the end

 to sum up our story.


@Yuyutsu Sharma




https://liveencounters.net/le-poetry-writing-2020/06-june-pw-2020/yuyutsu-sharma-on-an-empty-sac-street/?fbclid=IwAR1YxA06YNlL87FMXP0yNZY7FbTwAYdvqVVTKOwWtoAUPG5FOosTKwprRG0


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