Poem by Abha Das Sarma

The following poem was inspired by Dr. Jayne Shatz's artwork, The Empty Bowl, which appears on the
Poetry X Hunger website--ART - Poetry X Hunger.
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An Empty Bowl

has no home
carries no story-
it walks the streets,
crouches at crossings
waits in corners
to let the sun wash it clean.

​It seeks
no fancy recipes
no gourmet food
just the residue,
a spill of life-
broken rice
so often half cooked,
stuck to the bottom of the pan
with a coal lining.

Bio: An engineer and management consultant by profession, Abha Das Sarma enjoys writing. Her poems have appeared in Muddy River Poetry Review, Spillwords, Verse-Virtual, Sparks of Calliope and The Ekphrastic Review among others. Having spent her growing up years in small towns of northern India, she currently lives in Bengaluru.