Alankar(Decor)-96 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Return Of Monsoon(Terzanelle)

The Terzanelle is:
a poem in 19 lines made up of 5 tercets and ends with a quatrain.
metered, iambic pentameter.
rhymed A1BA2 bCB cDC dED eFE fA1FA2 or fFA1A2

The terzanelle body is comprised of tercets
that each refrain the second line of the preceding tercet
for its third line. The first line of each of these tercets
is rhymed with its refrained line.

The first and third lines of the opening tercet are refrained
as the second and fourth lines of the closing quatrain.

Return Of Monsoon (Terzanelle)

At last she is back here to me so close
This change of season to rains, the monsoon
Manured my heart doeth bloom from heaven's dose

How nice she heals all those hot throes so soon
And bids bye bye to summer! .. I wonder..
This change of season to rains the monsoon

How fine she calms and cools all to splendor
Thence in merry bounds of spirit joins life
And bids bye bye to summer I wonder

How well she drives drought to no more of strife
Vales and woods and hills and plains all flourish
Thence in merry bounds of spirit joins life

How great pools and brooks and rivers nourish
While flora-fauna grow bonnie a lot
Vales and woods and hills and plains flourish

Such a divine spit she is from God's heart
At last she is back here to me so close
While flora-fauna grow bonnie a lot
Manured my heart doeth bloom from heaven's dose