A Visit To Bryant Park-Kodaikanal Poem by Indira Renganathan

Waiting to tribute the nominal pay
Queuing gate-way was lined up in awe
That excited hearts eliciting Heaven all around

And I could hear in hushing chimes the angelic voices
From inside prattling in ambrosial tones
That in effect I was stunned entering into that Park

So as to tell you now, it was all rainbow-blots
Blossoming broad and wide in wonder wonderful
That my heart got to be tattooed on a sudden gusto

Over an area of 20.5 acres in luxuriant lushness
That you join me to surmise a divine mischief
Of the celestial chits blotting the rainbow-hues

Then throwing down on there kid like all kids
Next to clear them in fear of the earthly sentry
Descended but to only flee in sheer urgency

But on an intuitive impulse Mr.H.D.Bryant sensed
And his discernment in hasty anxiety did it all
In hurried grouping pristine of rainbow shades

Whence bloomed a heavenly flora in vast richness
That my eccentricity rolled on them in secret vision
My oddity hugged and kissed and jostled in secret soul

Just to befriend that bewitching scenario of flowers
A garland of floral friends my heart to adorn ever
Princesses of the queen of hills heavenly heightened..

They my friendly florescence of exotic hybrids and orchids
Elderly pals of trees years and years high and old
When atlast put me into trance under a 'Bodhi'(Birch)tree

I floated under the azured shade of the welkin sky
In captured moment yelled out thanking one by one
O'Fuchsia, O'Aster, O'Crinum Lily, O'Petunia, O'Viola

O'Begnoia, O'Cosmos, O'Dahlia, O'Haemanthus, O'Hydrangea...
Exceeding three hundred and odd they in response voiced,
Even now and ever in welcome 'yes Indira..yes Indira..yes Indira'..