Poem #25: Cool Coloured Chequered Challenge (4Cs that I didn't foresee)

This poem expresses, albeit in lighter vein, my feelings while sketching the portrait of my mentor Sri Sheshadri Mokshagundam. The portrait and this poem are my gifts to him for his 70th Birthday.

Uffh….whatta challenging reference pic it was Sir…for sketching your portrait!

I had to dig deep into myself, to find

Do I really have those traits to sketch this portrait?

Sri Sheshadri Mokshagundam

Right from the top….

What with those weeny tiny streaks of hair

Stranding around in the air

To get them non- straight yet look right

I had to break my head to use that arty might

How I wish that “Young at 70, spirits aplenty” you

Had a face rid of wrinkles like a boy of twenty

Surely shrunk would have been, all my struggles

What challenged me most amidst this colouring wriggle

To get that mystical twinkle

Was to penetrate beneath your goldie specs

And into the eyes to sketch those two tiny specks

Wonder why you had to stray away

From your standard simple shirt style…Y Sir Y?  (For me to sketch, it felt like falling of the sky!)

Why slip into a cool blue one hued with sorts

Of purple, pink and red

That too so complexly checkered (which made me dread)

Only to check my sketch

And sign it off saying….

“Oh so Cool and sooo well Coloured, but why all Chequered” ??           LoL !!

Poem penned by me Mangala Madhuchand

Bravo Boys!

The poem penned below is dedicated to Prajwal K A and Steven Harris, students of Sri Sheshadri Mokshagundam, our Art Teacher and Founder of SheshadrisArtpourri as a mark of 1st year celebration of SheshadrisArtpourri Online Art Gallery on FB page.

Bravo Boys!

Sitting tall and standing out

Towering over like a spire

Amidst the "Class"y crowd of SheshadrisArtpourri

Your artworks…..

They inspire us to perspire

To tire, tire and re-tire

Never say retire

As long as we respire !

In your works, we get the message

Practise pampering every bit of paper

Drawing your own rules (I mean lines!)

You can soon rule out using a ruler

Shower your love on any piece of paper

 It loves your doodling, be it with pen or pencil

And for lettering, you need not style it with stencil !

Your works….they state

Celebrate scribbling

With cheese in plate and chalk on slate

Pour your pet paints on palette

Be bold and brush them gently

On fabric, they look chic

On canvas, they look class
On paper, they are simply super!

To your life, they add colour and vigour

Ever ready shall be your mind and body

To take on more rigour!

While you paint, sit still like a saint J

And enjoy the flow

Dive deep into your heart

Bow now to that Divine Light Glow !

Your paintings…they preach:

“Right from your raw young age

Practise Art in any form

Dance or doodle, sing or strum

Sketch or etch, sculpt or paint

On reaching ripe old age

You can sermon about

‘The Living of Art and The Art of Living’

Just like a sage”

Bravo Boys….God Bless!

Few more of my poems can be viewed @ "My Poems"
My portraits of Prajwal and Steven can be viewed at Portraits - Sepians Series
SheshadrisArtpourri can be reached @ https://www.facebook.com/sheshadrisartpourri/

Saras and her holy cow

Saras bought some butter

But the butter was no better

Since it was a bit bitter

She thought she ought to make

Some delicious butter

To make the bitter butter a lot better

So she ran to her farm

And asked her holy cow

I want to use the bestest butter

And sleep aaraam

Oh Ramaa Ram my dear cow, tell me how

So Ramaa Ram “moo”d

Feed me the best

Gimme lot of rest

Just so my mood is always at its best

Now you milk me

Leave half for my calf

Then to you, with love

I shall gift the rest half

Don’t drink it all with your better half!

Boil and boil high this half, let it cool

That cream on top, don’t throw it

Lest you be called a fool

In a cup, collect the cream

Just for a week, that should do.

Wanna know how this cream can make your dream turn true?

Read me full @ How to make butter and ghee