With an artist’s eye

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Everything was dry, no life stirred. Everything was dried to the yellowness of the oppressive heat. Yellow and brown, no blue, no green. The sky was a tainted yellow with a huge, roaring ball of fire spewing out what seemed like abuses on every little object on the earth. Nothing which could move wanted to, for fear it’ll sweat itself out and crumble away like a dry leaf that was stepped on. Everything seemed lifeless; the sun had sucked life out of every one of them.

And then it happened. A drop of a magic potion fell on the earth. Everything sprung to life. The drooping plant shook off its brown-ness and woke up, stood tall and proud. The bird decided to clear its throat and sing, and others woke up to its music and applauded. The sun took off his fiery glance and instead gave a benign smile, present for warm comfort. A calm blue took over the sky, as the gentle sun looked on at all His subjects on earth coming back to life. Everything which could move now stretched itself and got ready to rejoice. The colours changed from brown and yellow to green, blue and red, purple blooms dotting around too. Everything became a celebration.
The magic potion of life, the potion called rain.

29 comments:

Ramanujam said...

nice narration!!!
it would be great if the magic potion licks chennai's hot ground...
veyil koluthing....thaanga mudiyala:(

Matty said...

I used to take bath while raining during my college days!!!
But now I am sitting inside my cubicle and even not knowing it is rained today [;(]

Subramanian Ramachandran said...

had the magic potion been conserved, the lifeless scenario wudnt have happened :)

aama enna aachu? u havent been to chennai as yet..athukkulla ippadi oru post....... watz the inspiration for this :)

2005 was a bliss for many (in chennai) in terms of the amount of rain recieved (although it over rained)..hope 2006 too rains the same way

Anonymous said...

ever considered a career at National Geographic Channel .... for a moment there, i thought i was reading the opening script of some nature documentary .... but quite disappointed that u left out the rainbow .... after all it's the only bright spot when it rains on a sunny day .... personally i dislike rain on a sunny day especially a frontal rain ... somehow it feels worse after tat ... hot as well as humid rather than hot and dry .... i rather have torrents of rain in the evening thus painting the sky a nice even grey .... especially when u have a cup of hot cocoa in ur hands as u peer thru the window grills at the grey sky yonder .... *grin*

(p.s. how am i suppose to mail u my comments when i have no idea wat is your e-mail add ... and personally i feel the story could have been much better .... it comes off as rather amateurish ... yellowness ...brown-ness .... why did u left out good, ol' loch-ness since it seems like u are going for a certain theme here ... )

Kausikram Krishnasayee said...

moody rain lifts curfew, everything back to normal..

Vani Viswanathan said...

ramanujam,
thanks! :)
i'm hoping it does..it was with chennai in mind i wrote this...here it rains almost bloody everyday!

matty,
seasons of life!!

Vani Viswanathan said...

subras,
hope it rains in mds now to just chill the place off!

dante,
saw the new 'mail me here' link in the blog? search, search!!

mark,
:)

Vani Viswanathan said...

Dante,
Forgot to say...the whole piece is from an artist's eye, hence the narration with colour...

Subramanian Ramachandran said...

>>here it rains almost bloody everyday!

probably ur presence there got to do something ;) (ICE.. ICE)

Anonymous said...

can we have some of this magic potion in our city?

Wetfingers said...

Yamma! Ne patukku, kavithayelam, ezhudhuvae.Onakku enna, ne singaporukku, escape aittae.Inga engallukku than aapu!SOODU ma! SOODU
'Amma' manifesto-villa adhu onnu dha illa! 4-gms gold has been promised for BPL(Below poverty line)brides.

Rakesh said...

nice poem if only it happens everyone will be more than just happy, cha for the past one week the sun's been overworking itself to burn up all the chennaites ;(

Aravind said...

nee sun-loving person nu en kitta sonnadhaa nyapagam... ;) ippo sun venaam nu solra?

Vani Viswanathan said...

rsubras,
ice, ice baby!!! ;) ennavo, naa eppo velila poganumnalum it rains!

shekys,
sure, i'm tired of the potion here, i'll pass it on to chennai!

Bharadwaj said...

Mazhaiya pathi read pannrathoda mazhai vandhalae bettera irukkumnu thonuthu... Man its blazing in here... Veyil Thangala.. Veliyila poga mudiyila...

Vani Viswanathan said...

wetfingers,
unakku enna pa, nalla veyyil-la okkandhu a/c la jolly-a irukkalam veetula...naa inga mazhai-la naal fullum vacation nalum hostel room liye irukkene! ;)

rakesh,
hey, it's just the beginning of may!i wish you goodluck to endure the rest of the month!

Vani Viswanathan said...

aravind,
ayyayo naa eppo apdi sonnen! it's 12 30 in s'pore now...and it's clouded...and i woke up at 11 thinking it's early morning...patha nonsense mazhai!!!

vidya,
sigh...i'm tired of it! :(

Vani Viswanathan said...

bharadwaj,
ei, cycle gap-la oru comment-a??? inga mazhai penju penju oru edathukkum velila poga mudiyla! argh!!!

Bharadwaj said...

The context of the blogger's local environment and the post seem to be in conflict. I cannot help but wonder what might have been the reason for such a post... Was the author thinking of her imminent return to chennai?

Subramanian Ramachandran said...

The author categorically proves that physically any one can be present anywhere, but their soul always rests in their home land :)

Anonymous said...

u could always hang out at citylink or the numerous underground linked malls at orchard ..... and u are telling me u dun have anywhere to go .... tat is unless u wanna follow the tourist circuit and visit the zoo or the botanic gardens or maybe sentosa ..... it's been ages since i last visited any of those places .... hell, i didn't even get to trod thru the esplanade yet .... hmmm, maybe should get some cheap tix for the upcoming musicals ......

Asha said...

Pfftt... it either pours or shines.. you can't get anything more than that. Boring..

Vani Viswanathan said...

bharadwaj,
romba yosichuta! it's a story of an artist who was in a dry land, which suddenly burst into life with magic.

rsubras,
whoa! :)

Vani Viswanathan said...

dante,
god, u're crapping away to glory! did you get drenched in the stupid rain here? :)

asha,
i know...we should have more seasons.

Anonymous said...

HOw do you come up with such stufff !!!!!!!

Subramanian Ramachandran said...

a post is due today :)

ganapathy said...

good thought, nice to have rain during agni nakshathram even here.

Known Stranger said...

very good narration carried me till the last to know what you are describing. well narrated keeping the suspence till the end.

Known Stranger said...

very good narration carried me till the last to know what you are describing. well narrated keeping the suspence till the end.