On your mark.....

My blogger and FB friend Shail Mohan lives in Kerala, India's southernmost state, that enjoys the first landfall of the southwest monsoon every year.

As if to celebrate this year's special event , the Olympics, and thanks to the verdant environment she lives in, she has posted this amazing photograph on her blog , Shots and Captures.

Someone in my family used to swim competitively, and it reminded me.....

Hot evaporations
of sweat
high into the sky,
moisture laden faces,
facing up
into the wind
during practice,
sometimes,
some dark
cloudy forebodings
from lightening quick folks
and they finally
stop drifting,
and
reach
the Olympian
City of the Brollies.

A gentle tapering down
from hard practice,
pitter-patter through
verdant greens,
meadows
and village downs,
and they stand,
on the green line,
hanging in anticipation,
ready for their event.

On their mark,
get, set,go,
a slight leaning
and
they dive
straight into
the pool of greens,
some in graceful freestyle
and some
in a butterfly stroke,
to the great amusement
of flying folks ***
chattering in the greens

*** I do not mean V. Mallya and S Kalmadi