#DailyFlowers
Here I was thinking it was an easy week and I would be able to put a post out on Monday, too. But life had other ideas. Sometimes it just trips you into a swirly-gig, at others it just completely yanks the ground from under you. Monday was such a day, the ground was not just yanked, it also created a deep pit that was difficult to climb out of and left at least 6 of us close friends asking the oft heard question: how many more, how many more do we have to lose? And if that wasn't enough, the state covered itself in resounding glory. Its actions sent a frail 84-year-old Parkinson's sufferer to death! And, it will resound maybe for a day or two and then all will settle down till the next episode. And that is what life has been reduced to. Hardy's words come to mind, "Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain"!
Even the beautiful flowers that dot my TL couldn't cut through this gloom, so I opted not to write. But there is a discipline that says the post must go up, so:
Here we are, fingers on keyboard dancing
Letters, words they come in prancing
You are late, we have been made to wait
Come on, come on, let's get to the gate
Flowers are a-waiting, their lines to move
Put the bad mood away and let's begin to groove
In the time that has passed, flower pix have been amassed
Their beauty very little in nature does surpass
From near and far, closer and wider
Come in buds and blooms all with a rider
Hurry, hurry, put us up
Let's be the center of all the gupshup!
Shalini shared pix of the Brahma Kamal, a flower that is said to bloom only for one night in the entire year. This comes from a friend's daughter's balcony. In a country as vast as ours, flowers are known by different names, Brahma Kamal or the Star of Bethlehem (as Katie says)
Whether a kamal or a star
This resounds from afar
Its beauty does us in pull
Its blooms are indeed powerful
Worshiped and adored
It divinity has scored
Creator given, God granted
Blessings galore wherever planted
Like a sentinel, it stood tall amidst the gloom
References to Wordsworth also came into play
In front of him, the blogger's a tiny piece of clay
Greens, whites and pinks did their color in scatter
These pix did set up quite a chatter
We have gained a member who deep knowledge does possess
Names of blooms we struggled to find
Are presented neatly defined
What more can we say
We adore the blooms Uday-ji sends out each day
Shashi brought forth a hibiscus spread
There were earlier featured in another thread
From standard red to pinks, peaches, and whites
To yellows, double tones and many with stripes
A flower so humble, yet with so much power
Blooms taken off to anoint the lord's bower
Precious blooms coming from a distance
Tales of the gardeners' persistence
Lovingly shared to brighten the timeline
Bringing hope, love, color, almost a life-line
Wherever you look flowers are having a run
Folks are learning to admire the lot
Even as they go around capturing them in shots
Perched on a bush, throwing his song on the air
That made for a lovely serenade for Shalini, the fair
Whether Cardinals and Bishops were allowed so to do
Was a question that Vivek brought through
That is for the reader and the cardinal to decide
Should those rules to the avian world be applied
Meanwhile, there are sunflowers aplenty
Holding up their heads maybe twenty by twenty
My Co-Contributors
@poeticgooner; Mahesh & Vishnu (aka Vee); Shalini & Katherine; Shalini & Katherine; Uday-ji; Uday-ji3; Uday-ji & Mahesh; Shashi; Mala; Sai, Vivek, Deepak & Shashi; Mahesh, Shashi & June; Shalini, Shashi & Vivek
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