My Village part 5 Raja Festival

My Village

part 5

Raja Festival

 

 

Only assignments no amusements

fetch man many psyche ailments

kids may chore it as nursery rhymes

as it holds true for all places and times.

Villagers young and old, men and women

celebrate events many with frolic and fun

Some are celebrated en masse and some alone

to compose them within a compass, will dare, none.

Elderly women fast, at times even without water

for the health happiness of family and stay fitter

Thus develop they, their power of endurance

to tolerate in life, any time, any earthly vengeance.

Raja festival with festivities for three days

drive all dwellers of the village to craze

to dine and drink, to swing and sway

Mentally and physically fit, they must stay

for their onrush tasks ahead on the field

where they have to toil hard for a good yield

The mother earth is kept unhurt, nothing is cut

nothing is ground thus requiring preparation a lot.

Male folk battles over games of Kabadi on sand

some playing in zest, some cheering from the stand

Female folk stays busy in their games and gossips

Lasses in new dresses dazzle with their makeups

swing they on swings merrily with their companions

House floors hypnotize with colored dust decoration

Homemade cakes had an alluring appetizing attraction

the special betels with ingredients taste as an exception.

The colored dusts, betel’s ingredients were from nature

without any additives or chemicals to make the man suffer.

Guests in galore visit the village for their pleasure meet

the atmosphere of festivities all-around was so sweet

that I had never got in any famed set up for pleasure

The cakes, the betels the Murujas, the scenes I treasure.

 

 

P K Routray

in the service of Lord

 

 

(N. B This is a continuation to my villages as part 5 Raja Festival. celebrated at coastal Odisha for three days during Month of Jestha that coincides with the moth of June year.)