In Alexander Frater's book 'Chasing The Monsoon' is acouple of beautiful lines from Kamala Das - her work -- In The Time of Drought--
'How often
Have I wished as a child to peel back the night like old wallpaper and burn it. To hold at monsoon time the wounded wind in my arms,
To lull it back to sleep'…….
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your descriptive poem takes me back to Kipling days! ! thank you Geoffrey-10