A Flower To Auroville Mother-81 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Lobster claw(Hanging heliconia
Heliconia rostrata)

But in Nature while others
Rounded, trumpeted, rayed
Else common shapes shaped
Strange how you're all claws

Beautiful clawed tassels rich
In green and gold and red hues
Wonder heavenly smith whose
Art with artly hand did so such

Majestic you stand elegant
With pendulous painted claws
A lobster a sentinel's part
Amid the plantain like leaves

You make me proud o'flower
Taller in pride and prestige
Beauteous display all over
Will my garden deny you? No