Alankar(Decor)-221 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Their Way Of A Plea(Brhati)

Brhati ('that which grows' or 'life's breath', God of Words) is an ancient Vedic stanzaic form.
Brhati is named as one of the seven horses pulling the chariot of the sun.

In verse the Brhati is
stanzaic,36 syllables written in any number of 4 line stanzas.
syllabic,9 syllables each.
metric, the metric pattern of the line requires 2 heavy syllables.
In English break the cadence with caesura and attempt to include
a couple of long or heavy vowel syllables near the end of the line.
('heavy' is a dipthong, a hard vowel sound or a vowel followed by a combination of consonants)

Their Way Of A Plea

Sitting around the sacred fire blazed
Mantras were rising, rising, rising
Hand in hand all tones in one tone up
Reached the sky, fetched the rains, chucked the drought