Romantic

When we left Allahabad on 24th evening, the temperature was in mid 40s. When we returned, it is in mid 30s with a good cloud cover and some amount of wind. I like rainy season. It's at times really romantic. Sitting in an "easy-chair", keeping both the legs on the arm of the chair sipping hot coffee with some murukku and banana chips, watching the rain drops fall, clouds moving around, hen going around looking for a place to cover itself, someone walking with an umbrella but all wet, electricity is gone and the radio which works on battery is singing some old songs........... ah......... great to think about it. I'm reminded of a poemlet written by S. K. Pottekkad. This is the most romantic poem I've ever heard/read. I am including it below. One needs to have Malayalam unicode to read.

അവളുടയവളര്‍കുടിലകബരിയിലലക്ഷ്യമായ്‌
തിരുകിയ പനീരലര്‍ തട്ടിവീഴ്ത്തീടുവാന്‍
കുറുനിരകളഴകിനൊടു തഴുകിവിഹരിച്ചിടും
ചെറുപവനനോടു ഞാന്‍ പ്രാര്‍ത്ഥിച്ചു നിത്യവും

ഇളവെയിലിലൊളിയിളകുമവളുടയ കമ്മലിന്‍
ധവളമണി ബിംബിക്കുമോമല്‍ക്കവിള്‍ത്തടം
പ്രണയനവമൃദുഹസിതകിരണമണിയുന്നതായ്‌
അനുദിനമനേകം കിനാവുകള്‍ കണ്ടു ഞാന്‍

For those who do not have Malayalam unicode, at least have Kerala font installed, here is a version for them:

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