Applauding A Boo Poem by Indira Renganathan

Applauding A Boo

Rating: 5.0


Vegetables on the chopping board
Inaugurate a television recital..
I chop chop
Recital going on
The lady joins me harmoniously
Chopping, chopping, chopping
Chopping the brinjal, raga
Potato, tala, onion, lyric
Her vocal chords strain to wriggle
The accompaniments, onion shed laughing tears
Dissonant, discordant, cacophony
Screeches to countless decibels
I'm chopping lady's finger
My finger weeps red

Thursday, May 29, 2008
Topic(s) of this poem: fun,social
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kesav Easwaran 03 September 2008

So 'onion' was the comedian-villain vegetable there in the show making the 'lady' to injure her finger inadvertently! Your chopping board is rich with hilarious veggies...and the chopper blade humorous sharp...10

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Samanyan Lakshminarayanan 25 December 2008

the chemist in the kitchen not making a destructive bomb, making a constructive and a creative meal- and wiyh a lovely song which makes it a pleasure even inspite of the onions-lovely mam-it is lunch time -10 i have posted a lot of new-i value your views- read my 'the lesson of the atma'

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Saadat Tahir 28 June 2009

beautiful...the musicality captured so very well and the aura of a house wife and the chores....married.... to music too! cheers awe... the bleeding lady finger!

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Nikunj Sharma 29 June 2009

If imagination needs wings, it shud ask for ur address.... Wonderfully sweet poem

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Duh Huh 17 July 2009

Beautifully written and touching. It reaches into the heart and pulls :) Thank you for sharing your talent with us Indira :)

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Kesav Venkat Easwaran 04 February 2023

Nice one Indira. One of your old poems. Knives like ladies' fingers

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Bharati Nayak 13 August 2022

So funny and so lovely! Enjoying again!

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Chinedu Dike 01 May 2020

Lovely and nicely penned with a tinge of humour. Thanks for sharing and do remain enriched.

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Ravi Panamanna 09 February 2020

A poem from a different angle. Very interesting indeed.

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Anjandev Roy 27 October 2019

Lovely piece.Thank u.anjandev Roy.

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