Special Feature Collaborative Poem--By Sheikha A.—Pakistan/United Arab Emirates and Suvojit Banerjee—India/United States

Komorebi

By Sheikha A. and Suvojit Banerjee

Voices of the night linger

as dawn kisses the night goodbye

I saw the light burst out 

of a white stag, standing like time

the night jar disappeared into shades

of a faded existence

the ancient rivers of folk moving 

on a dying star, breaking

to recollect old bones of the day

passed through trembling winds

to bring us news of souls in a pool

of time, where the stag kissed

the sand through its wings spanned

over the air like a commandment

like sunlight passing through leaves

of jungle with no shape

the lonely lighthouse’s hands raised

to the wind, the stag pierced

the relics of the guiding star – komorebi,

our reflections never whole.