Spark in Snowflake

A micro-poem about fragrant flickering of snow flakes

photo by the writer

Night incants abracadabra
silhouetting dew against dreams
Sun-soaked moon nearing dawn
grass kissed by coral n creams

flowers falling from branch, photo by the writer

Flowers strewn on the ground, photo by the writer

Coral Jasmine or Nyctanthes arbor-tristis is a night flowering plant with droopy branches. It bears heavily scented delicate orange-stemmed white flowers blooming profusely at dusk, found showered on the ground with spillage of its perfume in the morning.

In India the flower starts blooming in late August carpeting the ground through October and November. Kindled snowflakes still cascade onto the grass though dwindling in number while December is slipping away.
Revered as a favourite of lord Krishna, it is also known as’Har Singar' in India meaning 'the ornament of God’. In Hindu mythology, it is believed to be one of the many celestial trees received while churning ocean of cosmos (samudra manthan).

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This micro-poem is categorised as twittle, popularizing on medium recently. A twittle is 4-line micropoem constructed with exactly 100 letters. It’s perfect for tweeting on Twitter.

Era Garg 2020

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