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Spotlight Winter: Bare Trees and a Forsaken Cottage

On the bare branches
hang the
remnants of the last snow,
lost pendants.
The blobs of white
uneasy
on the brown limbs
of
the thorny tree, the
last maple leaves
flutter,
in melancholy, as the
trail winds down to a forsaken
cottage, near the lake.

Picture design by Anumita Roy

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Dr. Sunil Sharma
A humble word-worshipper: catcher of elusive sounds, meanings and images. Published 27 creative and critical books--- joint and solo. A winner of, among others, the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the novel Minotaur. His poems were included in the prestigious UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, 2015. Editor of the monthly Setu journal (English):

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