Ode to Ooty

Ode to Ooty

Blue blessings touch mountain tops
With merciful mirage
Bestowing grace the manna clouds
cluster what heavenly choirs
Are these?
The indescribable softness
is in itself a kindness
Upon stony earth bestowed
The waterfalls of lucid grace
The lakes dappled serenity in calmness
my speedboat centred in paradise
I surf ice water in my mouth
My cheeks frozen ecstacy
I am not just alive
I'm far more than it
One am I
With the birds and trees
Redwoods dappled with broken knees
I delve through barks
and shine through arcs
I'm breath of life
and immanent breeze.

Calm am  I
Soft as a silken canopy
That shades earth
With sun spangled parasol
I'm the incessant chirp
Of crickets
So cheekily cheerful
Dispelling the importance
Of unease.

Beautiful are you
God's own land
Heavenly heights of
Softness frosty calm
terraced chocolate brown slopes
topped by delicious icing
Delicate are your blue tinged skies
Laced with puffy pearls
Showering sequined grace.

Charmed enchanted
Bewitched utterly
Ooty,
You quaint endearing
Place.

(c) Amrita Valan 2016