Login
|
Join PoetrySoup
Home
Submit Poems
Login
Sign Up
Member Home
My Poems
My Quotes
My Profile & Settings
My Inboxes
My Outboxes
Soup Mail
Contest Results/Status
Contests
Poems
Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Dictionary
Types of Poems
Videos
Resources
Syllable Counter
Articles
Forum
Blogs
Poem of the Day
New Poems
Anthology
Grammar Check
Greeting Card Maker
Classifieds
Quotes
Short Stories
Member Area
Member Home
My Profile and Settings
My Poems
My Quotes
My Short Stories
My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder
Soup Social
Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us
Member Poems
Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Random
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread
Member Poets
Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest
Famous Poems
Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100
Famous Poets
Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War
Poetry Resources
Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetics
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
Store
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter
Email Poem
Your IP Address: 3.23.102.227
Your Email Address:
Required
Email Address Not Valid.
To Email Address:
Email Address Not Valid.
Required
Subject
Required
Personal Note:
Poem Title:
Poem
Cauliflower- A translation from Ashif Entaz Robi Men may get possessed with ghosts, mine was a scope to cope with cauliflower. For an uncertain grief, I tried to brief with a rhyme that day On a winter day, I did not ask , my love , for a flower to thee If Time permits, please treat with a dish of fried cauliflower, for me, After posting this rhyme to Facebook, my life and youth turned into a furnace truth, with “Crispy fried, brittle try” of all these. Mitu asked me, “Exactly who is your target audience in this poem?” I replied with all my simplicity, “ What does it mean referring to the target audience?” After this, Mitu asked a series of questions within a moment. Altogether this will be almost five hundred questions. I can hardly recall all of these. I can remember only a few of these. Such as In the first line, there is a word, my love. Who is your love? Who gives you flowers? Why is it a gift? How was the gift gifted? Where was the gift gifted? How many times a day, the gift was gifted? What flower was gifted? What else were gifted? What else is there remaining to be gifted? Fresh flower or plastic flower? To whom are you crying for the cauliflower, this winter? With so many things in this world, why are you crying for a cauliflower? Instead of an uncooked cauliflower, why are you crying for a fried cauliflower? Why would another maiden cook you a cauliflower dish? Why are you anorexic about your home made dishes? Is it about a cauliflower veggie dish or is there a secret recipe? After a lifelong relishing the truth of cauliflower, why are you covetous about that? How many more did you need (as per cauliflower?) When will you be done with your gluttonous appetite? What is wrong with you? Do I not serve you with homemade treats? Are you begging out in the street for a fried cauliflower dish? Today you are crying on Facebook, will it be a meager plate out in the street, on the next day? And a newspaper advertisement, on the day after? Could I not be the solver, if there could be a way you could want me to be simply that, there?? The very last question is a ruthless one. “Why are you so greedy?” I fell short decisively, to answer these. As a result my life had turned into a resultant truth of cauliflower , decisively. In the breakfast menu, bread and fried cauliflower, during lunch time cauliflower curry, a dinner with fish curry with cauliflower on the side. On every single serving time, there was the presence of cauliflower with obvious cauliflower! In between, I had to learn about the existence of cauliflower soup too! The amount of cauliflowers present in my serving bowl, last week, would defeat the famous anchor Shaikh Seeraj also, who airs the famous TV program , “Mati O Manush.” This evening, I requested, “Mitu please make me a cup of ginger tea, with liquor only. I got a cold.” Mitu, with her hardened posture, followed along to get the tea from the kitchen. I was full of fear. What if tea would be garnished with a cauliflower, instead! With the divinity’s blessings infinitely, she returned with the cup of tea. She softly spoke. “Do not take tea on an empty stomach. I fried some cauliflower chops, please have these and then finish your tea…” P.S : There was another question. Now it is coming to my mind. (Sobbing) What is there in a cauliflower that does not belong there for me? P.S 2: There was another question.Now it came to my mind. Please tell me the truth. Exactly how many cauliflowers are there that you took without telling me? In a secrecy?
CAPTCHA Preview
Type the characters you see in the picture
Required