Onset of Summer

when the coolness of spring begins to fade, in the wake of rising heat in early April in north Indian plains, and the golden wheat crops shimmer in glade, flowers of different hues begin to lose their bright sharp sheen. the dry, pale yellow and brown dead leaves of most trees, shed themselves off one by one exposing the bare branches, ahoy!! soon thereafter the nature’s miracle can be witnessed, if one looks at the bare dry branches a bit more closely. suddenly they seem to be covered with growing tender green leaf-shoots ‘n buds, and slowly begin to swing in the gentle breeze like coy maidens, taking cover behind each other they nervously glance around to check, they have not been seen naked in their act of changing their attire by any stranger. when the flower-laden branches of mango and other fruit trees gently dance in the air, to sweet notes of the cuckoo’s song attracting butterflies ‘n insects to their flowers, and what a surprise to see not so long after the sudden evolution of flowers into small unripe green fruits, which promise to become sweet ‘n juicy in the growing heat of the engulfing summer. the morning cool and gentle breeze rapidly starts to convert itself into, a hot, biting, dry, strong westerly wind as the sun simmers agonizingly close ‘n longer, everyone gets nature’s signal to search for shade and cool greens for solace, before the heat saps up whatever energy is left in the living beings. 27.5.2014