How To Beat Indian Summer? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

How to beat summer,
Indian summer
With scorching sun
Full of burning sensation,
The loo bowing,
Sucking in blood,
Ruffling it all,
The sunlight falling straight,

The heat intense,
Burning heat,
Blazing hot sun
Spewing fire flames,

The earth parching,
Parching and cracking,
Drying and baking in the sun,
The fire flames scorching it all?

Don't,
Don't be disheartened,
Stay you indoors
Or take to outings boldly
Keeping an onion
To beat it off,
Take you drinks,
Cold water,
Salad,
Cucumber, water melon
Enjoying it
And resting under the shady trees,
Taking lassi, sherbet,
Curd, lemon water.

And the summer,
Summer,
Indian summer will be no problem,
If have no cooler or air conditioner,
Shade you the place,
Wipe the floor off with water
And place the mat to sleep on
With water sprinkled.

Go to the riverside,
Sit in the orchard
Under the mango trees
Or the peepul or banyan trees,
Tuck you in an ice-cream candy
Or take you mango or tamarind sauce
Or if have not a fridge, take you
Earthen-water kept on over some sand heaped upon.