Blistering Barnacles

Okay ! So, I've been off for a few days. This hot summer is making me a bit crazy and with the water crisis in our campus, the situation is nothing short of a low-scale artificial famine !!

Well, I got some time at night and I wrote down this short poem (under the fan obviously...) - check it out !

Blistering Barnacles

The Summer is heated; And beneath me,

The dry Earth crackles.

Hot winds in the day

Dry my derma; and remind me

That this is MAY!

Evenings usually bring about a humid

And irritating weather; while sometimes gifting

Sweet breezes, lovely, calm and timid.

And when you meet that strong gale,

Accompanied by a fierce thunderstorm; You are in pure ecstasy

With a cheery & charming face, fresh out of a fairy tale!

-© Anwesh Bhattacharya, 06 May 2012

P.S. – This poem was written due to 3 reasons which simultaneously combined to give me the urge of penning it down.

1. I wanted to come out of my poetic inactivity after a lot of days. And the summer’s weather was a good way to begin.

2. I had wanted to use the rhyme scheme I found on Kirti's Blog.

Start of Line 1 (Rhyme A)
End of Line 1; Start of Line 2 (Rhyme B)
End of Line 2 (Rhyme A)

3. During the Stage Rehearsals of Rabindra Jayanti 2012, I spent a lot of time discussing the funny abuses of Captain Haddock in 'The Adventures of Tintin' with Aranyak Chakraborty. They aren’t really abusive and ‘Blistering Barnacles’ – Haddock’s Trademark abuse caught on as the title for this poem.

Your friend,
Green Mota

Sandstorm & Rain

Wow !! Today's evening was just amazing. I have never seen such a wild sandstorm fuelled by mad winds and followed by a subtle, sweet and soothing rain. The last couple of days was really hot for the normal KGP (Kharagpur) summer. The temperature soared as high as 42 C and the hot summer winds (known as Loo, locally) were harshly dry. It seems Global Warming had taken it's toll everywhere.


But, today the evening cloud brought relief and joy. The sky was overcast and he dark clouds were seen hurtling at great speeds above thin whitish lower clouds. The wind was ferocious and the trees rocked like barbie dolls. For about 15 minutes, there was a continuous blast of wind with black clouds hovering overhead. And the win carried with it all the sand it could find loose; creating a sandstorm like I have never seen here. Along with the ferocious wind came a sweet gust of wind, cool and refreshing !

The clouds were just like this !! 

Sometime later, lightning and thunder opened their books and I was very careful to de-plug all my electrical gadgets. Soon, the rain started and brought about a much-awaited relief from the dry heat of the hot days. I stood on my balcony and soaked in those pristine showers and watched the clouds fly away leaving bare a violet-blue twilight that looked nothing but soothing.


Though the rain was short lived, it succeded in bringing down the soaring temperatures down and guarantee a nice and cool sleep tonight.

Calm Rain drops !! How it pleases me to 
wet my skin in these pristine showers :)

Your friend,
Green Mota