Assamese Poems - Poems about Assamese

Dresses To Look Nice

...

   Your looks to carry your first impression:
   Your dresses ! Onlookers to appreciate.
   It is said ‘ Choose food on own decision,
   but select dresses on choice of associates.’

    You...

A Cup of Tea

...Just one cup in the morning; no added flavor
Ceylon tea or Assamese is my preference
Each drip and each sip I so favor and savor
Betwixt too light and too strong. This makes difference

Its red-...

Rongali Bihu

...Rongali bihu

Rong cascading down
the days around April fifteenth
jotted over the almanac
(Rong bihu or Rongali bihu, the Assamese gala)
luring New Year for the Assamese peeps and their culture...

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 cheri...

Khar

...Khar!
or
An alkaline extract!
my mouth drools 
o! momma
everytime I think of the dish
whether it is the beloved 
amitar khar (i know as papaya khar),
tiyohor khar (i know as cucumber khar),
...

Twilight At the Graveyard By Kuldip Medhi

...O' Soul, why is the sound
Of heart break so desolate 
In the dead wind by the overflowing river-side 

As if a gaggle of wild ducks flew away 
Carrying ripe autumns at their beaks 
The moonshin...

Three Thoughts By Kuldip Medhi

...1.

Autumn is in the air
The naked trees gaze up at the sky
As evening descends 
Like a deep sigh.

2.

Midnight's station
The trains bid a tearful farewell. 

3. 

The storm has blown ...

Pessimism By Kuldip Medhi

...Let the cold be more intense
The chill passing through every vein
Till blood congeals

Let the chill make its home 
In every home
And the city sleeps
In shivering cold

You must now be lying...

Only For You By Kuldip Medhi

...The conch and temple bells ring
The offerings lay out with fragrances and flowers
Unknowingly, you and I 
Are drawn towards each other
You hum a tune
While I listen
Slowly the sky transforms fr...

Last Word By Kuldip Medhi

...Met her first 
Where 
The meadow stopped 
Behind the mountains 
Benched on the buffalo's back 
A cowherd 
Played a riverine tune 
Where 
The bow-shaped river 
Flowed north 
The white yachts...

It's the Beginning By Kuldip Medhi

...It's the beginning 

From here the road 
Takes a bend 
Like the horse-shoe 
Towards west 

From here the stretch 
Of bare meadows 
On both sides of the path 
The tufts flying hither-thither...

I Long To Be By Kuldip Medhi

...Keep the door to your heart open
Flowing upstream all night on the Bhogdoi
I long to be the flute
That plays for you at dawn

Like the hum of a honey bee
On your moist lips, 
I long t...

Fragrance of Love By Kuldip Medhi

...Love means a wild whistle
A soft breeze through the window
Creating ruffles in the mind

Love means patter patter rains
Echoes of spring, dance of rongali

Love means the sunshine of ...

Dark Dreams By Kuldip Medhi

...The evenings nowadays have become gloomy 
Across the bridge, a bright patch of light 
Disappears behind a curtain of mist

Fields lie fallow
After a day of festivities
And roads wind their way
...

Lamenting Wings

..."you are more than I deserve. It's a love I never dreamed I'd find. Happinesd like this is worth dying for..."
- Yasunari Kawabata-

Looking down, while flying midway between sky and earth,
I saw...

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