Long Chapatti Poems

See them scattered everywhere in buses, trucks and horse buggies, thousands of them lined the street with only the clothes on their backs and a bottle of water to wet their dry throats when the...

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(Song: Rise one blood one life)
This is my honeymoon
The day I dreamed of ngath whom I love
In the year of yang de miir
The age of calamity
Under the shade of that tree
Yes, that tree

We fell in...

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Standing upon the roof top,
watching her brothers walk to school,
Rekha reminisces about her playground,
full of childhood innocent smiles.

A sole kite decorated in orange and red,
floats in the morning breeze,
Rekha feels her soul tug at her...

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I knew the day will come 
When I'll missed seeing these two furry babies
Jumping on me with excitement 
Asking me bread and treats
you two were grateful for one chapatti each
You two were indebted to me...

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This menace is my son 
  
Brings me a lot of fun 
  
Always wants to run 
  
Hates to eat even a little bun 
  
I love oiling him 
...

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My lost rib is lost
Girls reject me everywhere
some raise their noses when they see me
In the college they ran away from me
claiming my socks smell nasty
In dance halls bull-dance is killing me
I am told my...

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Her callused fingers
plow flour. A clock 
pendulum annoys her. 
‘Anon’, he’s impatient

before the plate. Her
sweat creates a moon
in wheat. A soft thing
is transformed by a hot

experience. It swells
like the belly of a 
pregnant lady. Kitchen
heat...

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