SATIATE EPICURE

 

SATIATE EPICURE

 

Enthrall celebration ameliorate,

Festive mind wait eagerly relate,

Millennium old culture survives,

Human tragedy fade, joy revives, (1)

 

Tells the land-of-opulence distant,

Golden era, prosperity lit instant,

Invasion era nit bondage slavery,

Violent time crumple lives worry, (2)

 

Uncertain a future, death prowls,

Excellent cuisine in-season rolls,

Fertile land defeat invaders moot,

River-delta, dense forest hill root, (3)

 

Tradition secure pockets delight,

Gather pilgrim epicure nice sight,

Summer season fruits succulent,

Mango, jackfruit, litchi nut scent, (4)

 

Jamun, karaunda tadgola flavor,

 Watermelon Jujube ginger savor,

Cashew nut Wax Jambu numerous,

Ripe Papaya plum grape delicious, (5)

 

Pineapple kiwifruit peach n sauce,

Fruits salad drink paste onerous,

Banana, Gooseberry, Anjeer tasty,

Apricot lemon Orange pear beauty, (6)

 

Spices enrich aroma allure curry,

Bay leaf Black pepper Hing story,

Black salt cardamom celery seed,

Cinnamon, cumin, coriander need, (7)

 

Cloves garlic chili onion capsicum,

Innumerable dishes use awesome,

Saffron tamarind turmeric ecstatic,

Hundred spices the food aromatic, (viii)

 

Cereal rice wheat barley sorghum

Maize Finger millet bay leaf some,

Billion people equal appetite taste,

Million taste fragrance recipe best, (9)

 

Centuries of invader colonial past,

A nation takes pride in food ever-last,

Temple thousand worships Indian,

Offers a thousand plates of food can, (10)

 

No-vegetarian delicacy cake curry,

Sauce soup ripe fruit sweet, savory,

Read a long list of food beverage best,

Amid poverty pain sufferance invest, (11)

 

Indian heart, lie in stomach ancient,

Motherland bountiful n magnificent,

Population growth culprit illiteracy,

Curse of independent nation messy, (12)

 

Enjoy food most birth marriage time,

Destroy much more hungry life fine,

Hope self-trust beautiful mind grow,

Development happiness stable show, (13)

 

Nation rebuild shoulder to shoulder,

Smile poor cottages, satiate epicure,

Nationhood n food symbolize culture,

Pursuit ambrosia is cuisine, epicure.   (14)