MY INDIA , MY LOVE
OH MY MARVELOUS INDIA YOU MAKE US SWELL IN DELIGHT,
OH MY LAND,YOU ARE SO SWEET IN YOUR AURA YOU HELP US AND GUIDE US TO A SWEET SHINING LIGHT ,
MY TRIANGA, YOU ARE MY PRIDE YOU DESCRIBE OUR COUNTRY RIGHT.
MY NATIONAL ANTHEM YOU KEEP US ALL UNITED AS ONE NATION,
MY INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER YOU HAVE SACRIFICED ALL FOR US TO SAVE INDIA SALUTE YOU THE REAL PRIDE OF INDIA .
Categories:
pride of india, 6th grade,
Form: ABC
She was called the “pride of india”
Why? She was Brit-built …
They that faced the mighty ocean
In ironsssssssssssssss
Ssss…Slugs but for the mighty wind
Blowing, blowing, blowing
Rolling over that ominous ocean
The men of steel!
No wheels….
but they reeled…. in
Goods worth more than gold
From India and all around
Back to that mighty crown
Not steel, but gold!
Dotted with colored gems
The real steel…
Could have done for themselves
Instead, did for that crown
Soft as down…
Why?
The abyss knows
steel melts to molten tears
and the brewing cauldron knows
the rust bucket…
(10/31/21)
Categories:
pride of india, allusion,
Form: Free verse
You Texas Cuspidata!
Not you, and not a curse:
Taxus cuspidata, for Japanese Yew!
So, don’t confuse a plant with the Ibex
Ilex serrata – that’s Christmas Holly
Or Japanese Winterberry
Butterflies, butternuts, a Buttinsky?
Shut your eyes, it’s Conocarpus erectus
(Pastor here is only saying "Buttonwood" in Latin)
Meanwhile in nature, the pines of Japan
Are dwarfed like bottled thunder:
Pinus thunbergiana
The Christmas Spirit is perennial in China (?)
Schinus terebinthifolius
(Again, Latin for another plant: Christmasberry)
Try to bonsai gladly;
A creeper in your home or villa;
Haha! Bourgainvillea glabra
My dad called this beauty, Pride of India!
Myrtle set me right, but India won at the end:
Laegerstroemia indica
Neighbors, boyhood buddies, international relations?
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry? No plant connection:
Just Hackberry named Celtis sinensis
(c) Modified 20170417, Deo. This poem was previously published in my book in 2005 (UnAmerican Education: Poetry and Politics, by Red Lead Press)
Categories:
pride of india, art, flower, garden, humor,
Form: Didactic