Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Rice

It’s Carbon and Hydrogen,

The basis of all fuels,

The fuel of fuels.

No, it’s the rice.

Just the rice.

The grains of rice

Risen from the paddy box.

What a Kanji!

What a Kanji!

 

[In southern India, rice soup is regarded as a healthy beverage. In specific contexts, it is used to describe a miserly person, especially in the state of Kerala.

 

Call of appetite,

Put on rest,

Water and rice,

Still no praise,

Daily taste,

Still no praise.

 

Rice Cooked

To meal of meals.

Base of meals

Still no praise

What a Kanji!

What a Kanji!

 

Rice hidden

Risen from the paddy boxes,

With no rice

With no rise

What a time!

Even the lord of death.

Might the face of death.

What a time

With no rice.

 

Throw a good

Seed of paddy

Paddy bloomed

In many, many stages,

So many stages.

Basumathi Matta,

Jeerakashala,

Ponni Kuruva,

Jaya Pokkali.

 

Rice hidden

Risen from the paddy boxes,

With no rice

With no rise

What a time!

Even the lord of death.

Might the face of death.

What a time

With no rice.

 

Lush green cover,

Laid out a paddy field,

In the centre

Golden sewing,

From the light of the sun,

At times, the moon.

Wind of the sun

Light of silver shines

Wind of the moon

Light of the golden shines.

 

In the lush green

Field ran left and right,

In the days of bright.

In the days of light.

Boca of paddy,

Bloomed like a flower vase

In the golden shine

Ran left and right,

Blew in bright

Reminiscences

Of time.

What a time!

 

Stories a lot

The shine of rice

Rise of rice,

From the paddy cage,

Still no praise,

What a Kanji!

What a Kanji!

 

In the times of harvest

Is the time of energy.

In the times of harvest

Is the time of dance.

Breaking the cages

Of paddy boxes

Rice is risen

To fill the sacks

In the back of men,

To fill the belly,

In front of men.

 

It’s Carbon and Hydrogen,

The basis of all fuels,

The fuel of fuels.

No, it’s the rice.

Just the rice.

The grains of rice

Risen from the paddy box.

What a Kanji!

What a Kanji!

 

Rice hidden

Risen from the paddy boxes,

With no rice

With no rise

What a time!

Even the lord of death.

Might the face of death.

What a time

With no rice.

 

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Rice

It’s Carbon and Hydrogen, The basis of all fuels, The fuel of fuels. No, it’s the rice. Just the rice. The grains of rice Risen from the pad...