Ugadi 2009 (Happy New Year) - Acrostic Poem by AtreyaSarma Uppaluri

[Ugadi is the New Year Day in parts of India – Andhra, Karnataka, Maharashtra, synchronising with spring and bringing along with it a spring of hope when the people wish for good to the entire life in creation. Ugadi or Yuga Adi literally means, in Sanskrit, beginning of a new age.]

Ugadi, we welcome you with open arms wide!
Give us strength to accept anything in life’s ride –
Alleys of adversity or paths of prosperity.
Drive and diligence do grant us to better our duty.
Impel us to do good to our friends and foes alike.

[Mar 27,2009: : Hyderabad - 500 056]