Echoes Beneath Grey Clouds
written by: Pramod Rastogi
Why does silence linger so deeply in the cold?
Life feels like autumn’s forsaken sigh,
Branches bare, suspended beneath grey clouds,
Snowflakes tracing patterns of quiet despair.
Birds retreat, their songs a distant past,
And eyes, heavy with a dawnless night,
Carry the weight of memories unspoken,
Each flake, a fragment of a love now faded.
The lonely wind whispers through the trees,
As if asking the same unyielding question, why?
Time hangs still, a shadow of what once was,
While reminiscence tugs at the edges of the heart.
Yet even in this aching solitude,
The promise of spring shimmers faintly,
A vow that love, like snow, will transform.
Pramod Rastogi is an Emeritus Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is the 2014 recipient of the SPIE Dennis Gabor Award. He is a Fellow of the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), and a Distinguished Fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI). He was Editor-in-chief of the international journal of Optics and Lasers in Engineering (Elsevier, Oxford) between 1999 and 2019. He is also a guest Professor at the IIT Gandhinagar, India. His poems have been published in international journals like Muse India, Mediterranean Poetry, The Beautiful space, Borderless journal, Indian Literature (accepted), etc.
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