Stawberries Ready To Be Eaten, Moldy When Not

I've had just enough time to...   let strawberries go to waste...

Taken in my hotel room in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Strawberries

Ready to be eaten

Left the night over

The next morning

Moldy

Who will buy

This wonderful morning?

Such a sky

You never did see! 

Who will tie 

It up with a ribbon 

And put it in a box for me? 

Who Will Buy? - OLIVER

The Hawker's Answer to a Silly Question.

I've had just enough time to...   check a hawker's wares.

Taken in a busy street in Ho Chi Minh City.

What is a hawker’s thought

When she is not selling her wares?

When she is free to think,

What is her dream?

I asked what makes her happy

She says I can buy it for a dollar.

And when I gave her the money

All she gave me was a ripe mango.

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Vocation - Rabindranath Tagore

When the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by our lane,

Every day I meet the hawker crying, "Bangles, crystal bangles!"

There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no road he must take,

no place he must go to, no time when he must come home.

I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in the road, crying,

"Bangles, crystal bangles!"