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Mekhela Chador

Mekhela chador I was too hurry and overwhelmed To embrace the attire "mur maa rr mekhela chador" ( - "my mater's Indigenous Traditional Assamese Dress")... The days in kindergarten, I cherish the attire, in her wardrobe enhanced and ironed The dining hours, I often queried her, to own the attire And in festive tyrant, She dressed herself in the silken weaving attire The onset of puberty; My body and soul celebrated draping of the attire From my breast to my waist to my ankle For the first time, I engulfed the feeling of being a woman (and beautiful) All coyness and tenderness are ornate as my fragrance The attire was made of silk in creamy white and cherry thread Like droplets of cherry-red blood unfurling the snowy linen And the ears heard joyously whispering me "mur maa rr mekhela chador" ( - "my mater's Indigenous Traditional Assamese Dress")...

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Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 5/14/2020 2:21:00 PM

Hello Shahnaz Islam, I like the way you have created this poem. Enjoy your day my friend.

Shahnaz Islam
Date: 7/12/2020 11:59:00 PM

Darlene De Beaulieu thank you very much.

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 4/21/2020 6:46:00 PM

This is a lovely poem deserving the honor of POTD Shahnaz. Congratulations! You live in a very beautiful place. I have always wanted to visit Bhutan area. Very nice to meet you. Aloha Connie xxoo

Connie Marcum Wong
Date: 4/26/2020 11:49:00 PM

Assam, yes I looked it up on the map. I was not familiar with your area. But I have seen shows of Bhutan which is above you, and is why I mentioned it. I would love to visit Assam as well. Blessings xxoo

Shahnaz Islam
Date: 4/24/2020 3:28:00 AM

Connie Marcum Wong it's Assam. Do visit us. Thank you very much for the love and appreciation!

Winged Warrior

Date: 4/16/2020 4:05:00 AM

Great write...Congrats!! on POTD!! Shahnaz...stay safe... from the Wingster...^WW^ :o)

Shahnaz Islam
Date: 4/16/2020 10:36:00 AM

Thank you very much Winged Warrior and you too stay safe!

Mark Toney

Date: 4/15/2020 11:07:00 PM

Congratulations on Poem of the Day, Shahnaz Islam. Welcome to Poetry Soup! ~Mark

John Watt

Date: 4/15/2020 2:31:00 PM

A lovely coming-of-age poem. Expanding our purview to those outside our own borders and culture are what make literature great. Congratulations of having these heartwarming words selected for poem of the day. Blessings ~ John

Mark Koplin

Date: 4/15/2020 1:45:00 PM

I'm not sure where you are from but your culture sounds beautiful. Congrats on POTD!

Shahnaz Islam
Date: 4/15/2020 2:03:00 PM

'I'm an elated Assamese Wench by heart and culture; Assam an enclave in Northern-Eastern State in India lays at alcove of the massive globe'! Thank you very much Mark Koplin.

Sam Kauffman

Date: 4/15/2020 1:00:00 PM

Congratulations Mekhela on your POTD - a lovely tribute to your mother, and becoming a women, through the metaphor of "Traditional Assamese Dress."

Shahnaz Islam
Date: 4/15/2020 2:04:00 PM

Every mother is the one who arouses and nurtures beautifully the womanhood unquestionably'! Thank you very much Sam Kauffman.

Douglas Brown

Date: 4/15/2020 11:15:00 AM

Beautiful Shahnaz. Do you get a chance to read your poetry to a group?

Shahnaz Islam
Date: 4/15/2020 1:48:00 PM

Douglas Brown thank you very much. Yes indeed and much appreciated!

Arturo Michael

Date: 4/15/2020 7:56:00 AM

The woman in a child...Lovely write...Congratulation Mekhela on POTD

Shahnaz Islam
Date: 4/15/2020 1:44:00 PM

Thank you very much Arturo Michael. 'There lays a hidden sprog beneath a frail; and divulges whenever she rendezvous lost memories'!

Tom Cunningham

Date: 4/15/2020 6:11:00 AM

A welcome change from all the doom and gloom surrounding our world at the moment. Congrats on POTD Mekhela. Tom

Shahnaz Islam
Date: 4/15/2020 2:07:00 PM

May my poems be a gateway to the world to taste philtres and it be an immortal for the lives!' Thank you very Tom Cunningham.

Quoth Theraven

Date: 4/14/2020 10:40:00 PM

?????? ????, Very nice dress...but what will you write of the apricot, when the fruit has fallen for the last time? -Richard

Shahnaz Islam
Date: 4/15/2020 1:26:00 PM

Quoth TheRaven thank you. 'And the last apricot was like his last letter received a decade ago; that was very little to quench my thirst but his memories were enough to last for the lifetime! - Richard