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Autumnal equinox is loud
Devas are asleep sound
Wintry inclemency is around
Reaching a solstice high abound
This and that sometimes and sometimes
Hide and seek of sun’s gimmicks
A phase of rain and cold in sweeps
To sow and reap rice gold in heaps
Holy Margazhi awakes
In black and grey nip bathes
Sanguine blot in rising mirth
On the forehead of mother earth
Margazhi sings her morning melody
Thereon stringing in harmony
Thiruppavai Thiruvempavai and Bhajans
Holy Margazhi auspicious; Matins propitious
Margazhi grown pregnant
Thai born resplendent
From their sleep Devas are out
Festive exultation bursts out
“Pongalo Pongal” for three days
Thanking for the rains and crops
In hands with flora and fauna lots
Indra, Varuna, Surya and else gods
‘Bhogi kottu’ is to ring out
‘Pongal pandigai’ is to anew set out
Kaanum Pongal is ‘jallikattu’
Sharpened horns coining bulls are out
Bunchy turmeric, ginger, sugarcane satiable
Decoratively around the pot of Pongal
Cuisine of rice and jaggery glossy winkle
With ghee, cardamom and nuts-sprinkle
Vernal equinox is now favourable
Sun is offered the Thai Pongal
A new year greatly grateful
Upheld is festival of Thai Pongal
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