Midsummer Night Rain - 2017
Last night it rained heavily:
ear-splitting thunder,
blinding lightning,
belligerent hailstorm,
and
of course
lashing rains.
Our
mango and margosa trees,
tall and swaying ashoka trees,
never-failing anar tree
-all-
had a nice and through wash,
leaving them
bright, green and beautiful,
as never before.
Decades ago
when I was in Satyam
there were quadrangles in the centre of hexagonal building
open to the sky in which
decorative plants like croton and the like
were planted and nurtured;
there was an old man employed
whose duty it was,
just to clean each leaf with water
and
keep the plants look green and fresh.
How many hundreds of such workers
I would have needed
To keep my few trees
As clean and green as rains did
Last night.
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