Thorn Tree Gossip

Thanks to all of you for the appreciation. There really is a thorn tree (Acacia) in a posh residential complex that I know where I spent time with friends and heard the amount of backbiting that went on, from women sitting prettily under it. I pitied the tree for being forced to stand there and listen.......!! Hence this poem.

in our subcontinent there is saying,that you are tooworried about the neighbours orchard than your own. nice.

wonderful, like reading a story
love to way uve drawn the various 'chaacters' including th tree

Your pen, Lokhi, is getting mightier and mightier.

I admit I have never heard of a thorn tree.From your description it has a flower that resembles a yellow tennis ball. (There was a time, decades ago, when tennis balls were kind of creamy white).A flower, like a young chick just out of the shell,such a soft and lovely creature one loves to fondle,that sadly ends up in the fondler's stomach after a few full moons.

The tree here knows the truth. The women only guess and scandalise! Very nice imagery!

v.s.gopalakrishnan