The dim golden-orange sky, adding sepia hues to the evening and everything around. Birds chirping and scrambling back home, a frenzied activity before they settle for calm. The cool wind that blows and just about ruffles everthing in its way. The smell...earthy, heady, muddy; beckons me out. And, I rush out to welcome it...the first rain of the season.
I open my arms to the rain, looking up to the sky. I close my eyes and feel. And, then as if by magic, it falls....the first drop on my eye...rolling down my cheeks. The steady drops hit my face, pricking my soft skin. It replenishes and rejuvenates me. I embrace it with my being. It is an elixir, filling me with energy and life, quenching my thirst because I am as parched as the Earth!
This is so refreshingly beautiful as though a deeper thirst for life is quenched ! :)
ReplyDeleteSame pinch today Janu - though your prose reads better than my poetry :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and refreshing.
ReplyDeletetip tip barsaa paani is my fav rain song btw :)
ReplyDeleteAwww :)
ReplyDeleteI love you for writing about Rain!
Vow ! I just loved the picture ! truly refreshing !
ReplyDeleteI have always loved getting wet in the rain and I still do :D
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I love the rain. Beautiful post.
ReplyDeleteCould do with some now....I remember when we were kids we'd run out to get wet when it rained in summer!
ReplyDeleteThis was a magical passage. Well done!
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What a picture you have painted...I love rains and the first ones are the best smelling ones :)
ReplyDeleteAah !! That first rain feeling
ReplyDeleteEagerly anxiously waiting for it now :(
Beautiful poem about the rain, could be a love poem too :)
ReplyDeleteOh, I sooo miss the monsoon rains!! Lovely pic and imagery!!
ReplyDeleteOoooh ! that was so beautifully expressed... I love the rains as much... and cant wait for them... :) They are my favorite season too :D
ReplyDeletesomething really sensuous about this post and I can't even figure it out... but I guess rains are like that :)
loved loved the post :D
The first rain is almost like God passing his blessings to us humans. But by the time we are on to the third deluge of the season, it feels more like He is punishing us for sins unknown!
ReplyDeleteLovely prose!
Beautiful! I love love love rains! And you've made me crave for them even more :)
ReplyDeleteSO BEAUTIFUL.............FELT IT ALL.....VERY VIVID.............
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love playing in the rain with my grandbabies. I love how they are hesitant to come out with NaNa who is jumping in puddles and spinning around. LOVE the rain!
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A to Z-ing to the end
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Janu, it is raining here in Singapore as I read this. But I still long to be home for the rains.....the way I know them. Beautiful, this.
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