Summer of '16

Dripping sweat and wet shirts, could it get any worse?
Waiting for mangoes and the rain, this time seems a curse.
Humidity has increased, and so has the sun's power
Also profit is earned by energy drink makers every hour.

Ten minutes of walking in the sun,
You are tired like a 200-meter run.
People gasping with handkerchiefs pressed to their foreheads
Mouths as dry as a toasted bread!

Thirty to thirty-nine, a regular jump
While the people out on streets walking with a slump.
Temperature, temperature, a very big agony!
People don't even step out in their balcony!

More than 8 glasses of water a day
Guess now surviving a summer is not a child's play.
When I turn on the A/C, it sticks its tongue out
I'm fanning myself with a paper, A/C's busy with it's pout.

Just in this season, the electric department cut off the light
Earning their incomes and potbelly sitting tight!
Crows shouting around for their share of water,
and mothers buying ointments to protect their daughters.

Sun-screen, Sunglasses and a pretty hat
Wearing a jacket on a cotton dress there I sat.
An umbrella as shade from the direct sun rays
Also a thin slipper, on my foot it stays.

All ready for getting out in summer
Its already so hot, the sun out full of glamour!
Couldn't the clouds come to our rescue
When whole country is standing askew

-Chinmayee Kulkarni

Myths and Tales

Myths and superstitions,

its all a big game.

All could have different meaning

or could be the same.

May it be Poseidon's Atlantis

or the Palace of Dwaraka,

One of Hercules' labours

or Ram's killing of Tadaka.

The animals aboard Noah's arc,

and the ship of Manu.

Many other tales that we know of

and the other section of stories which seems new.

But this is different, not all the same

Not synonymous completely;

For one has a prophet they know of,

but the other a pantheon designed neatly.

Gods and goddesses with their own departments

In different heavens have a seat

Maybe Hades in hell has some more 

than Yama in the patal-lok  has heat.

A big worldly puzzle to solve

Way bigger than a jigsaw

But no worries for people like us,

for there are Mythologists to put us in awe.