A Poem on Thingyan Festival: When Padauk Flowers Appear
When Padauk Flowers
Appear
With the air filled
with Thingyan songs
Happy dance and chants
come around
Impregnated with scent
of padauk
Revellers come out with
happy shouts.
Padauk blooms once in a
year
Thingyan usually brings
us good cheer
With all the dousing
and merriment
Thingyan has been a
happy event.
With the sprig of
Euginia as usual
Lads sprinkle scented
water on damsels
Some have nice time in
reveling
Others take happiness
in merit-making.
King of the Celestials
visits our abode
Hail Thee Thagyamin
with new hope
On the parchment of
dog-hide
The bad will surely be
inscribed.
Mont-lone-ye-paw is fed
to all
Charity-feasts for all
are within call
Some indulge in revelry
as usual
Others do meritorious
deeds in festival.
Thingyan falls in as
merry as possible
Traditional pandals
make it enjoyable
Rhythm of Thingyan will
ring forever
It comes out but once a
year.
Wishing to be as cool
as water
Wash the impurities of
the old year
New year will bring
peace and prosperity
Water-splashing
symbolizes unity and amity
Be ready to cleanse sin
and impurity!!
Maung Swe Ngae
Taken from The New
Light of Myanmar
13 April 2014 issue
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