For you all
Have taken new rice
As food,
You all fathers/mothers
Brothers/ sisters/
Friends.. I salute
You all.
I salute you.
If you would stay alive,
We would meet next year.
If we would die,
Nothing is there
To make us united again in
Our relationships here.
Good morning, good morning
To you all.
I wish you all for the new year.
In western odisha Nuakhai is a festival being observed by the people at the beginning of harvest of new crops.. This poem is translated from Kosli poemNuakhai juhar Kosli is a language of western Odisha, India.