As skies clear out, air crystallizes, temperatures drop, and earth changes from the monsoon range of inky blues and dense charcoal grays, to light translucence in regal reds, orange and gold, Bangalore sports its own celebration of this season with a burst of festival colors.
I walk down the forest track behind residences at IISc. and the ground is littered generously with gold - I look up at a canopy of tiny gold blossoms on an ancient tree against blinding clarity of blue skies. Smallest breeze bring a shower down, raining gold wisps on ground, shrubs, leaves, me...a sharing of the wealth it has amassed over this year from earth. Walking a bit further, I am startled by the the neon pinks, coppery sheens on a young peepul celebrating the return of the sun with a burst of new, young foliage. Almond trees on the Badam lane are changing shade too - here the dowager sporting deep shades in autumn of her age - maroon, crimson, ochre are favored after a year of youthful greens. Pride of India is similarly seen, abandoning shades of green, to colors of a richer hue, chinese reds and antique pinks set off coppery pods of coffee sheen.
Heart rejoices,
destabilizes,
poetic stirring,
murmur within,
life is beauty,
in autumn too,
I laugh at mirror,
my love renewed.
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