After A Long Time.... Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

Walked on two sides of tennis court
In the lane banked with yellow and pink flowers
At the end I saw the squirrel
On the tree branch with upturned tail
After a gap of five decades, maybe.
This fellow was twittering,
Reminding me of days
When I looked at birds to trace
The sources of this sound,
Not knowing squirrels produce this.

Other than this fellow, there were honeybirds
Male and female - male in brilliant dark
Green shiny color and so many female
Sparrows and bulbuls happily
Hopping from flower to flower
And the curved beak of the sunbird
Poking into those small flowers
Without damaging them
And only syringing out a bit of nectar.

I felt happy, and my head was at ease,
Weeks after my brain haemorrhage.
In Bhuj in Gujarat for shipping seminar
In the company of my lively wife, Tilaka.
Staying in Holiday Village Resort, room 503
On Anjar - Galpadar Road,
Maghpar - Gandhidham (Kutch) names that
Roll on my tongue and memory like in an Epic
And the day in Spring was 5th March 2011.