Five Scenes Related To Rain Poem by Arvind Srivastava

Five scenes related to rain
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1.

She had forgotten the address of our house

The piece of paper on which I had written my address
The rain has soaked it..
My ink was weak and
The rain was acidic!
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2.

The rain kept on dripping from the roof

On the canister lying in the courtyard

All night long the rain
Kept on singing a song

Someone kept on hammering a nail in the silence

We could not reject this knowledge of torture!
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3.

As a precaution
Amidst all the preparations
She secretly testified to my penury
First I was identified
Then the rain kept on
breaking my solitude
Dripping on my forehead!
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4.

The stove

remained in conflict with the rain

Then Borsi too
showed its face from time to time

Avoiding useless words of sentimentality
We too never trusted fire and water
Baked rotis as per convenience
And sometimes quenched our thirst!
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5.

This is not rain
These are tears

Included in the songs of resistance
Other than the proletariat
On earth
The loud voice of the soldier of nature
Remains!
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©®Arvind Srivastava, Bihar,
INDIA