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We children spent hours admiring flowers

Striking

Friendship with corolla beauties

Hanging

From trees, sprouting in bushes

Playful

Nose smelling --

Lips kissing marigold, lily, rose, lotus

Loving

Petals tenderly

"Champa, Chameli, Rajnigandha, Belli"

All pretty.

Sucked stems for honey; out of leaves made flutes.

Threading

Fluorescent garlands lit glorious; heavenly red hibiscus

Blooming -- To

Adorn our Mother Goddess "Ma Kali" with her tongue out

In embarrassment

"Her husband Shiva lay on floor, her feet touching his body"

At dawn and dusk,

We offered; our prayers; mango-leaf buds with rubicund smear;

Flowers as

"Shradhanjali" fruits as "Prasadam" burnt incense, blowing conchs.