The Blue Blossoms

The alarm warns: it’s time to wake, Time, twelve years of leisure to shake, Take a look, King of springs has come, The time has come now to blossom, And this message spreads all around, The plants perk up right from the ground, And nature spreads blossoms of blue, Nilgiri turning truly blue On an eerie clock’s unknown clue! ___________________________________ Happenings |04.09.2021| Free verse Poet’s Note: The Western Ghats of Southern India are all alive at present with blue blossoms of a flower called Neelkurinji (Blue Blossoms) which bloom for miles all at the same time of the season, and once only in 12 years. What alarm might be causing this synchronization is one of the nature’s wonders. Nilgiri is one of the hill stations on this hill range (Western Ghats). The word nil means blue.