Kite memoirs

Went sliding back into the past

Down memory lane gleefully

As those days were pleasant school days

A kite fluttered in the windy skies

Oh! The lovely kite memoirs!

Windy season was the season to await

Soon after the winds start flowing strong

Plans got underway to assemble kites

A Do IT Yourself in those early days

Oh what a thrill, pleasure and satisfaction it offered

Colourful papers thick enough to withstand

Winds were purchased, paper cut

in rectangular shape, tail pieces cut

Broom sticks one bent to resemble a bow

One put vertically across the paper

Now self made maida gum prepared

boiling the maida powder in to a sticky paste

Now all the bow and straight broom sticks fixed

To the paper held in place by the in folded paper

Gummed in, tails pasted to the kite

The kite is now ready to fly

Kites of mine other kids taken to

The vast open spaces. bundle of thread

attached , spooled out the kite takes off, lifted by

wind, soon it’s up, up and away into the skies!

All kites vying with each other

Flew high, high and high as if into the heavens!

Kite carrying run followed to see the kite in our hands

Moving with us still flying into the skies, oh!

Those were nostalgic kite days, will never come back!

-Mohan Sanjeevan