Here’s a poem about the spring flowers, Azalea, by Elsy, in Different Truths.

Azalea,
your magenta clusters
make me muse on
your amazing regalia.

“We wait all winter
for the regal arrival
of the Queen of Spring
to offer our bouquets!”

I know, but how come
you bloom this late
in summer too?

“O! That!
As a rule our blooms
are done in spring,
but there is a kind soul
who rains on me
showers of sheer love
in summer morns.

It goes to the pit of my roots,
to the tip of my leaves.

Flowers are my way
of saying thanks
to that loving soul.

I have tied a love knot
for her in my heart
which I won’t untie till I die.”

It then dawned on her
that not a drop of water
nor a drop of love
gets mislaid.

It arrives back home
in amazing forms.

Picture design Anumita Roy, Different Truths

Elsy Satheesan

Elsy Satheesan is a retired Professor of English. She had been teaching in colleges under the Govt. of Kerala, India. Currently, she resides in Virginia, USA. ‘Random Musings’ is her first volume of poems. ‘Summer Snow’, is the forthcoming one. Her poems have been published in national and international anthologies. Short stories in Malayalam have been published in weekly and fortnightly, in Kerala. Humanity is her religion, and poetry, her passion.