I thought
I should present you a flower
On your birthday
A beautiful and sweet scented flower
Perhaps
You will forget yourself for a while
Seeing its beauty and inhaling its fragrance
But then you will be saddened
When you will see its wilted petals
With no colour and no fragrance.
Then it struck me
Why not I present you a green sapling
That will be full of promise
To grow big and big
With promise of sweet scented flowers
And many many fruits
Inviting the nature guests
To build their nests
In the hollow of its heart
To enjoy its cool shade
To inhale the scent of its colourful flowers
And to feed on its sweet fruits
Throwing seeds throughout your garden
With many more promises
That will never cease.
Fantastic poem, Bharati! What better gift than a tree? I just planted a new tree in my yard a couple of weeks ago. I probably won't live long enough to see it get big and strong.
@Kim Barney, may you live long enough to see the plant get get big and strong!
Excellently crafted awesome poem mam.worthy of being revisited.Thanks to your better choice of birthday gift.
A very promising birthday gift that will keep flowering for ever. The pretty flowers will turn to sweet and sweet smelling fruits and many more promises.....10
Thank you Khairul Ahsan ji for your appreciation of the poem.In fact Daniel Brick has read this poem and sent his appreciation through Poem Hunter message.I posted it as a poet's note through editing.However it does not show on the poem.
My thanks and gratitude Madam Sylvia Frances Chan for reading and commenting on the poem.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
My B'day is coming soonly Thanks for the GIFT SIS
Thank you Poet Poet for your reading and appreciating my poem.