Mohito Song Poem by Anitha Thampi

Mint - Four or five leaves
Sugar - Two tea spoons
Juice - from three lemons
Two and a half Vodka
Soda
Ice



In the plantain-leaf land
Along narrow paths, pitch dark

The moonlight that sways hither thither, enchanted
You, a man or a woman?
The moonlight that spreads like a wild song, brimming over
Who are you to sunlight?
The moonlight that showers without respite, exuberant
Are you true ?
or false?

The crystal clear moonlit, vatted red
And matured blue for two and a half generations
That stumbles and falls all along the green leaves
Me?
You?
Me-you?

Translated by Dr. C. S. Venkiteswaran