A Flower To Auroville Mother-16 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Sarakondrai(Amaltaas, Golden shower tree, Cassia fistula)

A week ago you shocked me of your bare chassis
Bathing denuded totally in aerial refreshment
You looked to me somewhat undone in my hypothesis
However, a presumed renaissance I had forethought

What a magic! you got done day by day blossoming
To this day in grape-bunches of racemes long and golden
In tall height you've branched all around amusing
Multi-eared with fluorescent florescence heaven-done

Ornamental with a reddish hard trunk grown tall
Bearing pendulous racemes of penta petalled blooms
Golden yellow matching with the green leaves all
Deciduous and pinnate with pairs of leaflets' boom

Cassia, you just cannot be of a common nature
For your fishy nap per anum is highly seasoned
As if from the big bang is your flowering structure
No wonder, your medicated decoration is well endorsed