Highway Trees Poem by Indira Renganathan

They group communalized
Like a panchayat counselling
Gapped irregular
Mango, coconut, plantain trees

Like timeless sentinels
High-stumped palmyra trees
watchful sparsely
whilst fronded palms
Fanning to the highway-heaven

Territoried etching karuvelam(Acacia arabica)
There and there from side slopes
Often punishing dirtying feet
Whilst swinging banyan monkeys
Dancing to the whirring breeze

Templed at the trunks yellowy
Mewling little neem cradles
Holy threaded to augural shade
Whilst projected long pipal
Preaching the highway'beware, beware'

Numbered tamarind acidified
Boxed by vehicle-d souls heavily
In wider space spirited yet there on
Whilst withered trees nameless some
Branching to evince danseuse's elegance