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