The Unearthed Carrot
We are starting a weekly series of poems with colourful illustrations by resident poet/artist S. Rasa Rasika featuring vegetables.
We kick off the series with the universally popular carrot eaten raw, cooked or as juice.
An orange tuber
Seeks solace below
Its soft bushy top
Looks for an opportune
Moment to become noticed
And picked up, celebrated
A green front for the submerged
Dirt of a nodule
Covered in earth and worms
The carrot top is crushed
Uprooted, outshined
By the ugliness below
Polished now to perfection
The soundless foundation
Shines in its orange coat
Takes off its hat and bows
To a nonplussed crowd
Poem and drawing S. Rasa Rasika
An excellent descriptive creativity !