Rivals Poem by Ashvini Swamy

Rivals



A Koyal perched on the Gulmohar tree

And said to it testily

How you entice and enchant

With your fiery blossoms and majesty

While I have to shy away with this dark body

On the summer breeze rustling lazily

Gulmohar swayed its reddish head

And whispered ever so gently

I wear this ruby garb but for a few days

While there dwells a song in your heart always

One may bow down and never look at me

But impossible it is to resist such a sonneteer

And when your song rings so purely

My blossoms pale in comparison….

Now the Koyal trilled a bit shyly

Oh! Gulmohar how I love to sing

But I have to admit

That only among your radiant blooms

Do my songs reach a new glissando

To which the wise Gulmohar replied

When there is so much love

My beautiful dark one

Between you and me

Then why this bitter rivalry?

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