Tuesday, 19 September 2023

Train ride through rain drenched rural Bengal

 Ankle length soft green

Paddy fields , gentle sheen

 Laden boughs , grass and vine

Bathed , in a luxuriant shine 


Afar, some fields , are orange 

Sudden dots of  colour , splurge

No death, no brown , no age 

Verdant life's youthful visage 


Ponds are covered with sheets of round

Green has made them too , earthbound

The blue sky , dark earth the clear pond 

All seem to be somehow spellbound


Bewitched by the blade , the moss

The frond , the swaying  green gloss

The dominant colour of the slosh 

It is the emerald , glen and vale posh 


A flock of egrets take flight 

Against the green , dots of white

It is truly a heartstopping sight 

Open your eyes , shut tight 


See the paradise comes to you 

Outside a rattling train window 

It is Bengal, it is monsoon now 

Dazzling pretty , nature's brow .

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