First Monsoon

By Sandeep Kumar Mishra

 

Immigrant pregnant clouds in this high time
preparing to deliver aerial showers,
huge watery vessels, like a developed baby
too heavy to hold in atmospheric womb

 

Lightening proclaiming over the vastness
of the supply of life fluids,
weary peasants’ restless eyes wait for
their intimate dark relatives

 

Timorous honeybees, humble sparrows at bowers
Come! Welcome the procession of yearly joy
Come! Acquire this treasure of wet stuff
Look ! Silvery tip-tip deepens every available aide
pure life distils from the lofty branch- let

 

A pacy white perennial stream is on a raid,
polished jade vegetation, rinsed pavement is wet
everything is tame now, even the wild get modest
the sweet scent of sand is tempting to taste,
I want to be wet party, some memento to keep

 

Watery pearls blush their face in late Sun rays,
feathered creatures in a bow as rainbow crescent sways,
candour heart inhaling aromatic worship,
earth colourfully adorned like an Indian bride
in her first monsoon, commanding pride

 

Sandeep Kumar Mishra from Australia is an outsider artist, poet and lecturer in English Literature and political Science. He has edited a collection of poems by various poets - Pearls (2002). His work is regularly published in international magazines. He is the Storymirror Author of the Year Award Nominee-2019.