Street Decor

So stunning a stretch of kolams
Before each house in definite coloumns.
Simply superb, woven into patterns.
Designs of dots, single and multilines,
Encircling loops and inviting colours
Well done by bare fingers
Threading out flour of rice or quartz!
Down on the cleanly cow-dunged floor
An auspicious embellishment beside the door.
An aesthetically geometrical art so popular.
Dots foretelling the pleasing figure
Of a variety to decorate a border
Or to illustrate divine lords super
Or sensibly any paraphernalia in favour.
Note! ricy kolams mean an offering
To insects and birds welcoming
spirituality in, well off thereby warding
Evil. Ephemeral everyday but much amazing
In perpetual ethnicity with tamil ladies!

poem by Indira Renganathan
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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