Summer

What a wonderful power you have got, Summer! Religious ceremonies and marriages are over Schools and universities’ vacations are over O’ Summer I like you though you make us to suffer. August and September are memories of the dear But the days are still warm and stern, still to clear Brides married in May and June return with cheers To their future homes-to-be, to be endeared. Summer’s last messages in August about to disappear Silly September days, by all its signs are here. Before we are given away to winter as brides with tears Enjoy summer’s happy memories, autumn’s best cheers. Above in the clear sky the stars twinkle at each other Below on terraces, newly married sleep and whisper. ================================== A repost: June 14, 2014 Form : Contemporary Sonnet Contest: One Word Title by Skat-A September First, 2013 Dr. Ram Mehta May and June are the hottest months in India and rainfall varies from area to area. But still most of marriages take place during these months. Then the bride stays for some days with her in-laws and then comes back to her parents. On the 2nd day of Aushadh, i.e. nearly August, the bride returns to her home-to-be.