Saraswathi Menon

Name : Saraswathi Menon

Class : IX std

School : Arsha Vidya Mandir

Interests : Everything is interesting; you just have to look for it. I love writing. I enjoy Bharatanatyam, books,music and films. I hate mosquitoes.

APPLE TREE,AT THE WINDOW

Every afternoon

I overlook a lit room

filled with a group

of dizzy ballet students.

They twirl past

just like the globe

spinning.

They move their hands

as gently as

a mother’s hands

holding her newborn child.

Dancing to violin music,

they stretch theor legs,

like the strings of the violin.

I am rooted here,

stuck in the circle of earth,

swaying only

when the wind comes by.

But sometimes,

during those afternoons,

I become a dancer

with no ballet shoes or tutus,

just the music.

I dance too.

And in my dreams

I spin like a globe.