Ode to Indian Seasons

a poem by Gummadapu Narasimha Rao

SIX SEASONS

Indian Seasons art six and behold splendid
For unique, poly and hetero factors candid,
Exhibit exalted world-climatic expositions
With global conditions,
Unfold European, African, Arabian glitters
And Polar, Temperate, Tropical characters,
No country witnesses, such varied habitats
Great India exhibits,
Deserts, deltas and rivers indeed admirable
Mounts, plains and valleys reckon credible.

All countries, experience three apt seasons
Summer, Autumn and Winter associations,
Indian seasons hexa! with definite qualities
By significant abilities,
Summer, relates to Vasanta and Greeshma
Autumn reflects those of Varsha and Sarat,
Winter, correlates with Hemanta and Sisira
With spring spectra,
Anti seasons three art hot of Dakshanayana
Post trio spans cool and confine Uttarayana.

Indian monsoons peerless with prominence
Start at right time pats seasonal importance,
Create, congenial conditions, for cultivation
Bring rains jubilation,
Southwest monsoon cuts June to September
As Nairuthi season that main rain harbinger,
Inspires! farmer community with adoration
Starts cute cultivation,
Northeast monsoon, of October -December
That Eesanya span boon to arid land farmer.

Polar frozen white mist, exist on Himalayas
Temperate normality, confines to Vindhyas,
Tropical blazes, mirages on the Thar desert
Highest peak Everest,
Chirapunji, highest rain record, astonishing,
Kanyakumari Sun rises – Sun sets stunning,
Multifarious factors art the primly splendid
Diversity too placid,
No vast changes, in fiery climates of South
But weather fluctuates acutely in the North.

Deserts subsist, anti to stiffened mount fog
Arid withered fields, counter the ripen crop,
Still parched soils, among submerged lands
Fertility-famine co-exists,
Peninsular seacoast on the three sides nicer
Northern territorial ghauts art really steeper,
Significant nicety fetches gaiety and beauty
Indian panorama pretty,
Ganges, Sindhu bio-rivers fairly fascinating
Seasonal Godavari-Kaveri art of captivating.