The Indian Rangoli Or Colorful Poetry On Floor

Inspired by Deborah Guzzi’s Blog ONAM / INDIA The Indian Rangoli or Colorful Poetry on floor This is the story of the poetry of Ancient Indian Women, Who were less blessed to get, The knowledge from the learned Gurus. They were living before marriage With their parents, And helping their mothers, In household affairs, Or looking after their husbands, And his great families, After their marriages, In their early tender age.* Finding no ways to express, The feelings of their hearts, One of them took a chalk in her hand And made a sketch on the floor like an art, There was no canvas and no brush, To fill her great artistic skills with colors, Emotions were flowing in her mind, Like a rainbow with alluring colors, The talented one among them, Collected flower petals of different colors, And took many flowers to fill and decorate, The sketches of Rose, Lotus and others, they had made on the floor. Gradually she started putting, Color petals in those lovely designed sketches, And filled all empty sketch figures she had made there, She was astonished to see that it came out like real Lotus flower. The painting of petals on the floor was, So alluring and enchanting that even its, Beauty and fame, one day reached the heavens, And Goddess Lakshmi* was too pleased to hear That some one has made figures of Lotus, More beautiful and colorful than her favorite, Seat of sitting on Lotus, And she immediately decided to visit that house, Where the young girl had made such alluring beauty of colors Like poetry flowing on the floor, every where before Dewali* When she visited that neat and clean house, Decorated with enchanting beauty of Rangoli She was so happy that she blessed that girl with Immense wealth and happiness. Which always comes with the coming of Lakshmi or the sign of wealth, every where in the world. She also said, that day, while visiting the place of that girl “Who so ever makes and keeps her house neat and clean Any where in the world and decorate it with Rangoli Will get my blessings of happiness and wealth” Ravindra Kanpur India 18th Sept. 2010 Clarifications: The above is the brief story of the origin of Rangoli, which must have started more than 2000 to 5000 year back. Now Indian woman is active in all the fields of education & social uplifting. *Although the early age marriages has now been made illegal but in some parts this bad tradition still exists. * Dewali or Deepawali is the festival of lights, joys & happiness, which falls every year around 5thNov.