Onion by Leela Soma – vegetable inspired poetry
Onion
A perfect bulb of crystalline beauty
growing in the darkness of the earth
petal by petal, gentle stalks of
green showing up in the sun, a promise
of a taste to enhance cuisines around
the world.
A humble root vegetable
makes us tear up with no hurt,
reveals no core, layer upon layer peeled
like shedding skins of our lives.
Leela Soma, May 2019
(An attempt after reading Neruda’s ‘Ode to the Onion’)
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