When * 'Transformation' Flowers Fell
Dec. 6, 2002
I remembered thee in morning light
When 'Transformation' flowers fell
Andin the Bay of Bengal's night
Whose eternal waters rise and swell
In waves entranced by moon-delight
That break upon these timeless shores.
I marked thee in the song-bird's flight
And shared with earth her deep remorse
When beauty fled the anguished soil
That felt no more a well-loved tread
Or gentle hands of cheerful toil
Where on thy gracious presence shed.
Though Heaven's arms around thee close
I hold thee in the perfumed rose.
Nirodbaran's comment: 'Very fine.'
*The spiritual significance given by The Mother
for the flowers of Millingtonia hortensis,
the Indian Cork Tree.
First published in Mother India - October 2003