"Tadaiva lagnum...." or "Here comes the ...."

A delicate and awesome yellow butterfly, stepping out is style across the green carpet, and clicked by my blog friend Magiceye, at the Mahim Nature Park, in Mumbai.  

Posted on his Mumbai Daily bog, as part of the Saturday Photohunt series. 

The fine yellow fabric with woven gold lines, , the tentative delicate stepping,  and the advent in spring, of a normally crowded wedding season in  Mumbai, just gave me some ideas....

Read on .:-) 

Back amidst
the greens and flowers
where she grew up,
at first crawling
on some easy trees,
then cocooned secretly
intricate inside a
wild rose bush,
she appears now,
resplendent
in a
gossamer ashtaputri sari,
daintily stepping,
on a green carpet,
escorted 
by the gentle breeze
and supported
by the newest stems.

The unseen groom
in an orange brown
gold-shot silk sherwani,
waits
with baited antennas,
on a bougainvilla
at the other end.

A few "single" moments
and they will fly off,
serenaded
by the crickets and koels,
for their "honey"moon
at the Ovalekar Butterfly Park.....

The Greening

Blogger friend Magiceye posted this in the Saturday Photohunt series.

Blooms captured at the Mahim Nature Park in Mumbai. A park which was developed on what was previously a garbage dumping ground for the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.

Methinks ,our society is somewhere reflected in the demeanor of the leaves......

(photo by Deepak Amembal Magiceye)
An exciting,
blooming childhood,
standing up
to everything,
holding secrets close,
and rejoicing
in the opening up....

The apathetic mid-age,
been there, done that,
so what's new....
a boring routine,
of
all dressed up in red
and nowhere to go...

And then
one day,
a peaceful transition
across the hill,
into a senior life,
rich with green,
satisfying memories,
and
you hold them
all ,
red and green,
together,
smile
and say,
"How green was my valley .....!"