Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Birth Stories


Blogger friend, scientist,avid gardener, and photographer Sangeeta Khanna, posted this on FB.  A fitting photograph to depict the arrival of the new year and the passing of the old.

Sometimes things take on a human quality.  As below :

(photograph by Sangeeta Khanna)

Old Gulabibai,
specially there
for the
confinement.

Back in her
home ground,
alert
to assorted
ill-mannered flower pickers,
anti green
avaricious crooks,
and unexpected
ill winds,
she guards
the expecting mother
ferociously
sharpening her thorns.

Always
by her side,
shooing off tiresome moths
one early dawn,
amidst tumultuous breezes,
and crowding greens,
the waters break,
and
little Rosa arrives.

Celebrations
and gathering of leaves,
drenched in the waters,
and Gulabibai,
tired,
slips aside

to lean back a bit,
her dull cream paloo
wrapped
about the shoulders,
her dull gold hair
glistening with sweat.

It's time 

for her to move on, 
and
for Little Rosa
to bloom 

and face her own day
in the Sun.

1 comment:

  1. Wow this is so beautiful !!!
    The Little Rosa is just about to bloom into a beautiful woman , a princess....Let's welcome her and imbibe her pink hues...
    Thank you for gracing my picture once again :-)

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