My blogfriend Shail Mohan, besides being a a wonderful and perceptive blogger, poet, is also an excellent photographer.
She posted this mouthwatering photograph on her photoblog, Shots and Captures.
Sometimes the urge to grab a handful (of peanuts, that is ) results in a poem ....#just sayng :-)
(photograph by Shail Mohan)
in wedding vermillion,
spiced
with
fine tasteful jewellery,
crowded together
at the venue…
Fewer fertile fields,
the obsession with the male crop,
fewer girls,
and the
popping corns
crowd around
the swayamwara premises,
packed in sections,
so turmerically wedding-ready…..
The brides,
keep an open mind,
and enjoy all;
children’s pockets,
little fists,
with older folks ,flowing with beer ,
sitting in newspaper wraps
on trains and buses…
just everywhere.
constrained
behind the restrictive
plastic wraps,
sometimes buttered in flattery,
huddle together,
wondering
how
the sex ratio
got so skewed…….