The Rain of Memories #FridayReflections

42 thoughts on “The Rain of Memories #FridayReflections”

1. Ithuvare etheele Monsoons ang?!

   Kaathiruno. Njangal vittal ale angot varu 😉 😛

   • Mazhayokke etthi. 🙂 Nalla weather aa. 😀 Pluviophileinu mazha iniyum vannalum no complaints 🙂

     Enjoy the rain, Ilirian. Don’t forget to get drenched. 😀

2. Oh what a delightful poem under the umbrella. I enjoy all the memories associated with rainy days but they are something I could do without as an adult….dragging a wet umbrella everywhere, having the wash dry all over the house, the rain somehow loses its romance as you grow older…..

   • I know. It seems different when we grow up and become adults, but I hope to still retain the magic and romance of rain even when I am much older. 🙂 Thank you, BellyBytes.

3. Ishtapettu! valare ishtapettu… the puddles, rainbows.. verandah.. aha! I don’t think I have grown up at all 🙂
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   • Yeah, Pins! Me neither! 😀 It’s wonderful to see that the magic is not yet lost for many. 🙂 The rain is something that still gets a smile, and I feel that will continue that way.

4. What a lovely and creative response to the prompt. Well done, Vinay 🙂
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   • Thank you, Parul. 🙂

5. My own favourite season too! <3 If at all from school we had some free time when it poured, I would rush out in the rain with a few of my friends! And now the terrace at home serves the purpose, though I don’t go out that often anymore. Ahh…good times! 😀
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   • 🙂 No terrace here to serve the purpose, so I get drenched in the drizzle whenever I can, Dashy. 😀 The memory of good times is also a good time, no?

6. Pluviophile to the core!!! Loved the umbrella silhouette 🙂

   • Glad you liked the silhouette, Ishi. 🙂

7. This rings in lot of nostalgia of the rains when the schools reopen in Kerala…getting very very drenched and soaked in the crisp new uniforms and the rains falling from the house tiles in torrents making it look like a mini waterfall…

   • Oh. Here in Bangalore as well, Sunita. 🙂 It brings in the nostalgia of school days. Getting drenched, and getting scolded by grandma. 😀

8. Oh you have a lot of fond memories about rainy season. Nice to read your memories artistically spaced within the canopy of an umbrella.

   • Yes. A lot of fond memories about the monsoon. 🙂 Glad you liked the post, Prasannakumary. Thank you very much.

9. Love it! I especially like the creative presentation. Must admit, monsoons were my least favourite season. I hate the wet. Thanks for linking up!
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   • I hate the dry. 🙂 Makes me ill, the dry, hot summer. So the monsoon was a welcome sight. Thank you, Babby.

10. Whistles!! Such a wonderfully nostalgic write this is, Vinay 🙂 especially adore the images of “holding hands in the rain, summer has changed..” Beautifully penned (as always)

    Lots of love,
    Sanaa
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    • Glad you adore it, and the nostalgia. 🙂 Thank you, Sanaa.

11. I will try again to leave a comment. Love the shape. Glad I don’t live where there are monsoons though!

    • It came through the first time, Kanzensakura. 🙂 At least, I think so. Monsoon is just the rainy season. Nothing very scary. 😀

12. Ah.. love the formatting, very creative. Love the thought of what the rain can bring.

    • I know. 🙂 It is fun to think of what the rain can bring, Bjorn. Glad you liked it.

13. Beautiful reflection and I love how you fit it into the umbrella. Although, I wonder if an umbrella would be of any use in a monsoon? I’ve never been in a monsoon. Are they windy like a hurricane, or just lots and lots of rain?

    • Monsoon is just the rainy season, Linda. 😀 Not a hurricane or anything. Rains can be light or heavy, so umbrellas are definitely handy.

      Glad you liked the reflection and the shape. Thank you. 🙂

14. I love the words and love how you’ve presented it. Such an evocative piece!

    • Glad you enjoyed the poem and the presentation, and that you felt the piece to be evocative, Freya.

15. Well, I was smiling as soon as I saw the umbrella. This is so creative Rain can be cooling and healing.

    • Glad the shape poem got a smile, Truedesssa 🙂 It can indeed be healing.

16. Lovely presentation. Memories of childhood.

    • Thank you, Petru.

17. Oh, I do love shape poems! I’m not a user of umbrellas as I really enjoy rain and am quite happy to get soaked! But I love the shape and form of umbrellas. They also remind me of my grandfather who used to sing a song to me: ‘Any umberellas, any umberellas to mend today?’ I enjoyed the words, too. I have never sat on a verandah and watched a monsoon, but imagine it must be a very intense experience.

    • Oh. I love getting soaked too, Kim, but not always. The intensity of the monsoon sometimes is too much, especially with a Kindle in my bag most of the time. 😛 😀

      Glad you liked the shape poem and thank you for sharing the memories. 🙂 Yeah. It is. Though not as fun if the verandah begins to get too much watered. 😛

18. Chapeau for the brilliant was you found to present your poem. I remember praying for the SE monsoon to start, as everybody became jumpy and irritable in the leadup. Though I wasn’t so happy when the machine gun rattle on the tin roof of the church drowned every word of a wedding service I attended.

    • Oh yes. The sound of rain on the tin roof might be unwelcome on such occasions, Vivienne. 🙂 It wouldn’t be as romantic then, not to the guest or the couple.

19. Creative and lovely!

    • Thank you, Ayala. 🙂

20. This is so nicely presented. Bang on creativity.

    • Thank you so much, Tina. 😀

21. You are a creative master, friend! Brilliant idea to write under the silhouette of an umbrella – that too about monsoons! No one celebrates the rains like we Malayalis do, so way to go!
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    • True, Sreedeep. 🙂 Keralites have a special bond with the rain, I guess. 😀