The Magnolia

The Magnolia

As the long, languid days of summer, looms,
Around the bend, the magnolia,quietly  blooms,
And gently casts her enticing, redolent spell,
My vagrant , racing thoughts, I quell,
To pause, and take in her heady smell,
And as my nostrils fill with her delicate scent,
Reminds me,of the gift, of living,in the present.

--shubha