A Flower To Auroville Mother-98 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Vellai Nocchi(Chaste Tree,
Vitex negundo)

Not a stranger you're
A handy helping doctor
Grown all along with me
Old trunked like a tree

Panicled lilacs gracing
Odorous leaflets curing
Ready to you I'm bowing
As aching cold beheading

As much you're medicinal
So much you're religious
In Shiv-pujas functional
As one of the five bilvas

So I've adorned you Nochi
In the garden of my heart
Your warm tri-leaved beauty
To assuage ever me so smart