A Flower To Auroville Mother-99 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Magizhampoo(Mimusops elengi)


O'dear starry flowers
I opine you of Vaikunt
Krishna's sandal drops
From His Basil-Chest

As playing His Bansuri
Waving ecstatic Basil
Off chips chandan free
To Earth by wind docile

Blessed me having you
Flowery, fruity a lot
Tiny creamy flora woo
Cooing cuckoos to spot

Such is your fragrance
And your fruity ambrosia
Red and tasty alliance
On high trunked umbrella

And your leafy thicket
When shades the cattle
A shelter of a socket
Like the Govardhan hill