NOSTALGIC RAIN

      

    NOSTALGIC RAIN

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Rain drops trickles down from roof top

Frogs love affairs with

croaking is at the top

Granny after taking moori waits for a tea cup

It is raining cats and dogs without bluff

Grandpa amuses himself with a mouthful of spiced betel leaf

Power cut makes all worried 

Inverter is out of order

Since long

Mother lights up candle and lantern hung

Uncle opens his trunk

Brings out old battery gramophone fixing speaker pin on HMV record and plays on

My little sister nods her

head gleefully 

She listens to the Bollywood evergreen

song with full attention

Pussy cat is prone to

purr in Granny's lap

All of a sudden metre board flashed on

Mother switched on the bulb and bar light

Limitless glee spread over

our faces 

Mother called out 

We ran up to dining room

Mother served us

Roti and mutten curry

That made us merry

We consumed dinner

Presence of Grandpa Granny uncle aunty father delighted us

Mother shifted her dinner from the kitchen

She proved her loyalty to family being the last

consumer

Raining was stopped

Cool breeze was cropped

Our eyes were drowsy

We solicited mom for 

a bed cozy

All our elders went to

their bed room

We entered with Granny into her bedroom 

We lay on bed 

Our eyes became more sleepy

But our ears were active

Only trickling noise was whispering in our ears

This nostalgia is still

active now 

While rain starts its action 

Our sexagenarian mind

recollects the dead past

O time O manners.

( Written by © Abadhoot Panda 

Dated 21.06.25 

Odisha, India )