Dozens of these clusters were hanging in a row
Outside a shop, beside a small park.
I couldn’t make out what they were.
So I used my phone’s camera to enlarge
One of them. As the enlargements grew
On my phone’s screen, the image looked
More and more like some kind of
Fruit. A custard apple perhaps,
Combined with a mango. What a
Charming idea, I thought. Yum!
The fragrant sour-sweet of a mango merged
With the soft white decadence of a
Custard-apple. Impossible! But fun
To contemplate. Until I
Saw the tiny bulbs.
Ah! Well. How boring.
Just decorative lights, after all,
For an evening’s entertainment.
nature stimulates our imagination yet technology can dull and disappoint!
Haha!