A Flower To Auroville Mother 25

Kozhakkattai Mandarai(Yellow Orchid Tree, St. Thomas Tree, Yellow Bell,
Bauhinia tomentosa)

Very much unassuming an appearance..
Sometimes plain, sometimes black throated
Plausibly to threaten a disturbance
Insects, birds when circling hunger bloated

Mandarai, but your golden smile bright
As that of sun around, why do you then droop
Indicative, medicative for sore throat
Like Shiva your blackened throat, why then stoop

Ah, your bilobed leafy claps acknowledge
While humming granny grinding chutney of them
You are how much purposeful without wastage
How much useful you're adorable optimum

So, you're my pooja flower Mandarai
Right soul linking me spacewise
Soaring me to celestials to go by
So you're handy sure in every my utterance

poem by Indira Renganathan
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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