NATURE AND POETRY

Embracing nature's symphony.

- Elsa Lycias Joel

Here I am doing what I do best! I have enjoyed sounds, sights, scents, thoughts, and feelings; sights such as twilight, sunrise, sunset, changing colours of the sky, floating clouds, birds in flight, raindrops on petals, dewdrops on grass blades, rainbows, swaying trees, falling leaves, caterpillars, pupae, butterfly dance, a full bright moon, silhouettes, and a lot more. All these are always accompanied by familiar sounds, relevant or otherwise, and feelings which I can't explain.

Just when I try to work on how exactly I feel, my restless wandering eyes and mind would take me to another place. Scents either cover me in nostalgia or make me waddle in déjà vu. Flowers and their fragrance take me back to old-fashioned houses of loved ones, their well-kept small gardens, flower vases, or their kerchiefs with flower embroideries.

The smell of heated oil and spices leads me back to dimly lit kitchens, where I waited for my favourite foods beside women who loved and nurtured me.