(Due apologies to a kids nursery rhyme)
Bus driver bus driver, can we have a ride?
OK, OK step up inside.
Round the bend, up the street, madly we go
Screeching and horning
Hold on tight!
Conductor sir, may we alight
We seem to have reached and we are alright!
Into an auto, squeezed up tight
We reach Sembium gardens, much to our delight!
Shoba is there, as usual giggling
And Arun is there to take us treewalking.
Buttress roots
New palm shoots
Subabuls are plenty
Rain tree flowers so dainty.
But where are those birds that I came to see?
Have they all gone off to have their morning tea?
Mosquitoes attack bare legs with glee
Sending my son on a hopping spree.
Coffee and biscuits, a welcome break
The caffeine ensuring we were all awake
To see Saraca indica
Which is the real ashoka
And not Polyalthia longifolia,
Our common false ashoka!
At last I see herons in the pond!
And is that a coot and moorhen beyond?
Parakeets in the raintree screeched
A flameback in the cordia, knocked
And to go home we turned around
Oops, the same mad bus driver we found!
Round the bend, up the street, madly we went
Screeching and horning
Held on tight!
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ReplyDeleteWhere is Sembium Gardens?
The photograph is lovely.
love the picture
ReplyDeleteKamini, Sembium Gardens is in well, Sembium! (Perambur!)
ReplyDeleteArati, sniff, sniff, so you dont like my rhyme?! LOL!
Oh really? Here I am, a one-time Perambur resident, and I had no idea!
ReplyDeleteLiking A does not mean not liking B.!!
Kamini, Sembium is where Annamalai used to work. It is the Simpson estate.
ReplyDeletePleasant poem and pleasing picture!
ReplyDeleteThanks Raji.
ReplyDeleteha ha , but of course i do! :)
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