ODE TO A WATER LILY
Malachi Edwin Vethamani
You stand singularly straight
a whiteness among the green.
Your petals unfurled
now strike outwards
each firmly hold its own.
As the day draws on
you are in fullness.
Then slowly you recede
into yourself to a tightness.
Your respite is brief
and with a new morn
you replay your loveliness.
A crowning show
then no more.
Your once straight stem
now lies slant and soft
beauty spent now still.
In the water the guppies
nibble and shelter
while you waste away.
Malachi Edwin Vethamani from Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is a Malaysian Indian professor, teacher trainer, poet, writer, critic and bibliographer.Â
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