Flowers for all Seasons!

 #DailyFlowers

It is post time again! Dear me, where did time go? It flew past so fast am dizzy! Would you believe we are in September again, fall's round the corner and then in another 4 months we will say bye-bye to 2021. When we look back on 2021, what is it that will hold us in our tracks? A pandemic changing into an endemic? Definitely! But that's not what will hold our attention! Despite all the chaos, all the natural/unnatural tragedies, the world turning topsy-turvy, it will Nature's blooms, her fruits, her flowers, their perseverance that will hold us fast, guide us, calm us and take us forward. 

Time passes and seasons change
Vivid flowers still fill the range
An inherent lesson somewhere in there
Circumstances don't subdue their power here

Senna occidentalis-Coffee senna-बड़ी कसौंदी  &
Vachellia nilotica-Acacia Arabica va. Indica-Gum arabic-बबूल / कीकर

Come September and the drums resound
As the adorable elephant God makes his way around
Flowers, sweets, rangolis, devotional songs
These last a whole 10-days long
Then the adorable Ganpati is bid a farewell
With entreaties to return the next year, as well

Raindrops on petals and on leaves
One pix from India, the other from overseas
But rain is rain and the drops do at the ends dance
What music they hear freezing them in a trance
Yellows, red, violet also take a stance
As glorious blooms they do prance

Some contributors from flowers did take a break
On Nature's other creations, they did attention stake
Wild forest and pathways do with them teem
Mushrooms became the timeline's theme

Blooms glorious in all shapes and sizes
Across the year, these are nature's many prizes
Along with blooms a butterfly is seen
Many splendored colors do sway and preen

 

Shashi continues to be on top of the game
Along with flowers, he is garnering fame
Shalini came in with recycled flowery bins
 Whitey under  raat-ki-raani sprawls & grins

Non-stop fascination do flowers create
Whitey and his co-conspirator come to investigate
Graceful blooms from water does Vivek spring
While Vee a bluesy beauty from his friend doth bring

Who said flowers grew only on plants and trees
They perpetuate all across on a mild or strong breeze
Some  spiked, some tall, some upside down bells
Birds, bees, flowers in the dell

Chenchrus biflorus -Indian sandbur-भरुत

Pergularia daemia

My Co-Contributors

Mala & Rachna; UdayBaxi; Shalini, Sai, & Vivek; Charles, Shashi, June, Deepak & @Heera5688; Vivek; Shalini & Shashi; Vivek, Shashi, Charles, Rachna, & Mala; Deepak & Mala; Shashi; Shalini & Shashi; Vee, Vivek & Shalini; Shashi & UdayBaxi; Vivek, Shashi & UdayBaxi