Shift of sex

Flowers are, in general, endowed with

Scent and nectar to woo bees and flies

For the ultimate goal of impregnation.

Then why do the Jasmine and the Rose,

Known for scent and nectar, fail,

In their courtship, to get impregnated?

Do they copy men and women,

Who want only sex and not its fruit?

18.11.2000, Palakkad.