Vakresvara Pandit’s appearance day
With I’m a sumanas child
Demigods shower flowers
On the gold and blue
Vakresvara Pandit’s appearance day
With another wing we’d fly
with the akasa puspas in the sky
love above power
taught by our teacher who knows.
Leis of roses, dahlias and seeing eye flowers
picked downtown between the office towers
outfit made around the mukuts and trim
cold turned the vests to kirtas proper and prim
Vakresvara Pandit’s appearance day
Gecko and I are sprinting to the main street and the hospital curve. Over Rodeo creek to the tennis park and the natasala where the show is about to begin Around the corner to the reviewing stand through the triangle and to the harbor Between the lakes where there are plenty sufferers basking in the sun the windmill is vacant along the over the hill road the beach has people walking jogging and playing there are peddlers all along a brigade of folding bikes are headed for a bus stop but Gecko and I keep on to the wharf road at the long and winding he takes leave and I head to the ratha-bhojana-vrksa and on to the sandhya that begins with the blowing of the sank
Hiranya Kasipu is the nightdress. From Nrsimhacaturdasi it’s soft gold and yellow silk with gold trim makes it good for the night’s rest. They dance, beat drums and shower flowers all through the night.