Lover, they say, live on love and fresh air maybe that is why one rarely, if ever, finds reference to food in love songs. Poets hardly ever sing of food; poets too live on poetry and fresh air perhaps.
In Myanmar pastoral songs and madrigals, there is quite a number of references to food. The Myanmar swain in calling his maid to 'come and live' with him, does not sing of the pleasures of the hills, valleys, dale and craggy mountains; he does not promise her 'beds of roses' but only a coverlet of cowhide and thicks cotton blanket to wrap her up tenderly and lull her to sleep with the music of his bamboo flute.
To her swain's invitation, the maid responds with a promise of a meal she would cook with roselle buds and land crabs, shells and all, and a dish of field mouse sweetened with white pumpkin; she said she would spread the royal banquet before her man, as the sun rises high in the cool drowsy weather; so that he will doze off in a luxurious nap after the meal.
ေဒၚခင္မ်ိဳးခ်စ္၏ Coulourful Myanmar စာအုပ္မွ ေကာက္ႏုတ္ထားပါတယ္။
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