Festival Thai Pongal Poem by Indira Renganathan

Festival Thai Pongal



Autumnal equinox is loud
Devas are asleep sound
Wintry inclemency is around
Reaching a solstice high abound

This and that sometimes and sometimes
Hide and seek of sun's gimmicks
A phase of rain and cold in sweeps
To sow and reap rice gold in heaps

Holy Margazhi awakes
In black and grey nips bathes
Sanguine blot in rising mirth
On the forehead of mother earth

Margazhi sings her morning melody
Thereon stringing in harmony
Thiruppavai Thiruvempavai and Bhajans
Holy Margazhi auspicious, matins propitious

Margazhi grown pregnant
Thai born resplendent
From their sleep Devas are out
Festive exultation bursts out

'Pongalo Pongal' for three days
Thanking for the rains and crops
In hands with flora and fauna lots
Indra, Varuna, Surya and else gods

' Bhogi kottu' is to ring out
'Pongal pandikai' is to anew set out
Kaanum Pongal, is ''Jalli Kattu'
Sharpened horns coining bulls are out

Bunchy turmeric, ginger, sugar cane satiable
Decoratively around the pot of Pongal
Cuisine of rice and jaggery glossy winkle
With ghee, cardamom and nuts- sprinkle

Vernal equinox is favourable
Sun is offered the Thai Pongal
A new year greatly grateful
Upheld is festival of Thai Pongal

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Topic(s) of this poem: festival,social
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kumarmani Mahakul 02 May 2020

Vernal equinox is favourable Sun is offered the Thai Pongal A new year greately grateful Upheld is festivel of Thai Pongal.., .....nice concluding. A beautiful poem on Pongal is amazingly shared. Thanks for sharing.

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