Street Art In Chapel Road | ©SatishKrishnamurthy/Flickr
My Hibiscus plant
leans on my pink wall
and spills
orange blooms; luring the flower thief
each dawn,
when my plant is in a mood of charity-
the sky is pink in shame
so am I;
the husband’s face
is like the monster fish forever fixed
on the wall of Bandra’s Chapel Road*-
the woman is unabashed-
she has in her hand
a long stick with an iron hook
attached to its end-
she plucks my heart
with it-
the shy wall can do nothing-
*Chapel Road in Bandra, Mumbai is famous for its colorful street art.
Posted for my prompt~ The Wall @ Poets United Midweek Motif
sumanar/lekha 
she plucks my heart with it, the shy wall can do nothing.. what a terrific close!
Oh I was so hoping that somehow the wall could and would intervene!
Aha….a flower thief.Husband should wait with bucket of water:)
So many wonderful lines here. Thank you for this challenge; it got me thinking about the walls we put up between each other.
Brilliant! I have wondered about my right to possessions when others have so little, and yet–should I feel shame when someone plucks my beauty? The wall is only a backdrop, aftter all. (I struggled today to put a few images into a poem that wanted to be too plain. Here, you have shown me how. )
Oh, this is so powerful in its thematic unraveling — the pink of the wall and the shame, the thief that arrives at each dawn and the unabashed woman plucking your heart make for such a sensitive portrayal of both the sides of the wall.
Wonderfully done, Sumana.
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Wow!!! AWESOME. Sumana
Thinks this is my favourite of hours so far
Much💙🦅💛love
An excellent write. I like the last two lines in this closing. Thank you for prompt! It made me think of many different walls.
I love the street art, love the poem……especially love the monster fish!
How well your fascinating words took the reader to the scene. I really enjoyed this!
Oh yes, you totally engaged me too.
I love the riot of colour in your poem, Sumana, especially the lines:
‘orange blooms; luring the flower thief
each dawn,
when my plant is in a mood of charity-
the sky is pink in shame’
and the image of the ‘monster fish forever fixed on the wall’ – thank you for sharing the photograph!
I also love the shyness of the wall.
‘the shy wall can do nothing’ – love that, Sumana. Great art as well!
You have so beautifully written such an everyday scene…love the opening lines!
Yes, you have captured the mood with the line “the shy wall can do nothing” Something very sad here.
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Walls are silent like that. Love this Sumana!