Once a year you pull your head out to see the world
once a year you bloom in joyous abandon
once a year you light up the grasslands
once a year you spread like the wildfire.
You live a full life for those days,
only to mysteriously disappear soon after.
O mystic "mayflower", how do you ?
For the last five years in IISc, I have found one thing to happen with regular periodicity... the blooming of this flower.... I call it mayflower but thats just because of when it blooms... in May !!
Five years ago, I saw this solitary red flower peeping through the grassy mat, a big ball of red, having its first day in this beautiful world. It was first time i had seen something like that i was wonder-struck gaping at it like a little child. And then in the next two days the flowers seemed to have had enough of the world and disappeared; much to my sorrow ! :(
But then next year and the year after, the same flowers came back up at that same time of the year. Only this time, there was not just one flower, there were a whole bunch of them. They came for two days every year and made the world a much better place (some how their presence made a difference to me). I began to wait for those two days in the year when there would be so much red in the green !!
Those flowers were like the brief moments of joy that you encounter. They last for a moment but they light up the mind space while they are around. You negotiate the periods of great lull in anticipation of those moments and then it all seems worth it... The only thing is, happiness is not all that predictable as mayflowers and sometimes they last longer than two days... and thank god for that :) !!!
And like the mayflowers, happiness too can spread and multiply... one smile can light up many faces and thats how happiness stays in the world ...
3 comments:
Hey finally I appreciate your writing skills.. very lucid and nice. Stick to this kind of writing... avoid less familiar words.. it feels good for the reader. Especially for the one who limps without the vocabulary limb!
Want to see this mayflower in iisc.. should i wait until the next year...? boo hoo
Wow, that is a GORGEOUS picture!! I wonder what they're really called?
I'm just as fascinated with the common yellow dandelions that pop up every spring as you are with these.. :)
Thank you second sight ! It is a gorgeous picture indeed but not shot by me... The flower is : Haemanthus multiflorus, football lily, it is an african lily, that blooms only once a year... is also known as powder puff or globe lily. A native of Africa, this plant grows well in all tropical places.
The yellow lilies on the grass are another favorite of mine... they spring up out of nowhere and brighten up the grass... :)
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