Stealthy glances
At one another
The first time they met
Anxious smile
No words spoken yet.
Friends and discord
Came i-two-a bin
One's family
The others is in an uproar.
Big- bellied uncles
With funny jokes in abundance
Some below the belt
All wanting more
The ladies tittle-tattle
In a quiet tone;
Children not welcomed
Men do not enter.
In total ruckus
The couple secretly
A signal from the eyes
As the couple connected
To each other.
Hands joined
Flew apart;
Blushing in the face
An awkward start.
A tongued-tied silence
Prolonged the air ;
Far from talking
What a dumbfounded pair.
Arrange marriage is interesting because if it works out for the couple they will have a good story to tell their children when they grow up. Also, the couple can say something like "hey if it wasn't for our parents we would have never met and I wouldn't be as happy with you" or something like that.
ReplyDeleteI love how you captured the emotions of an arranged marriage from different individuals. In stanzas 1, 5 and 6, you wrote how the two people that are about to get married must feel. Arranged marriages are set up by the parents and most of the time they suggest someone a woman doesn't even know. Lines like "anxious smiles" and "an awkward start" shows how uneasy it is to be in an arranged marriage but there's not really a choice so you have to begin your new life; unsure but ready to learn how to live with each other. Then in the other stanzas, the feelings of the other relatives at the ceremony are mentioned. They don't feel the same fear like the soon to be married couple because they're having a great time together and are used to the tradition. This whole poem was a great insight on something we always hear about but don't really know since we have never experienced it.
ReplyDeleteI really liked how the ending had a good flow to it and how you wrote about the awkwardness to arranged marriages, I also liked how you included how the surrounds were like the uncles and the women talking. It gives more of an example of what the experience of an arranged marriage maybe like.
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