Splashes of light
The colour of dusk
Daubed across the crepuscular welkin.
And light from a pale moon.
Casts a wash over the scene.
It bathes the violet firmament of night
In a diaphanous milk white
That shimmers in the glow
Of a million stars.
The darkness of night
Hailed from beneath yonder seas.
Where the horizon
Inked a line of indigo blue
‘Tween heav’n and earth.
And a sorrowful song
Began to pervade.
Where the trees edging the deserted fields
Displayed great boughs
Etched in ebony black.
~Monalisa Parida
India