Long Jackfruit Poems

for Granny Letchumi (b. fin 19th C. - d. 1978)

Once i was a prince in your highbeamed palm-thatched house
  timber and stone
   of hardened mud and cold green shiny cement
in your village...

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Ho Xuan Huong (1772-1882) was a risqué Vietnamese poetess. She has been called the BEST Vietnamese poet, a proto-feminist, and "the candid voice of a liberal female in a male-dominated society." 

?c Nh?i  ("The...

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I was a capable, urban professional, quite eagerly living the high life;
Like pink robin, of the saffron noon zenith, afore shadows bloom rife.

My daily work was very challenging, and it allowed me to be creative;
Like...

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because it  burns  you
you don't like the sun
and the shadow doesn't buy a story,
It knows its edges and the milky ways,
attached to a leaf tail
chlorophyll counts its rays,
sucks energy from its light,
- we...

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You kept pulling us apart and driving us out into the dark; you kept pulling us apart when you knew that you have gotten it wrong from the start. 

You kept pulling us apart when...

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FLOWERED TEACUP IN SPRING


My heart lies vacant
             to vulnerability, voiding into
            ...

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When I was a little kid, 
I used to play with my 
Little cousins,
In my grandma's huge 
Old house 
With no electricity... 

It was a village 
Filled with greenery 
It was like a vacation 
Home...

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Ghazal : Now she’s left and gone to be herself again

Now she’s left and gone away, my clothes hang dry
On the line for all to see – what a crying shame !

The lone cuckoo calls...

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There were liberal field, golden paddy, mild touch of south breeze
And there were you, your beautiful smiles with opening mind

There were jackfruit, plum, mango, palm, and betel-nut trees on the bank of the pond.
And there...

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11/14/22

It needs to be correctly retold
The problems came three fold
In came an extreme cold
Across the land beginning to seize hold
Giving nearly ever leaf mold
Nearby a market where there was meat sold
Experienced first hand or seen...

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SWISS CHEESE

The major connoisseurs of swiss cheese
 as incredible as it may seem,
are not the Swiss basement rats.,
are the "voles" from the underground of the
politics....

    THINKING OF BEING HAPPY

Just thinking of being...

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How calm, how cool aah!
In the queue of betel jackfruit, mango garden
Happiness run with family
Paddy area and the mustard field.
Baisagu arrived in our village
Beautiful dance of joy, welcome
Village to replay around parties
Kham jotha thorkha playing.
Aah!...

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Thinking about earthly matters 
One should not forget about the soul
Sometimes I look at the sky 
When I look at the it, I fly
So much foreboding these days
Though life is thick and thin for me
I...

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Even more beautiful than the bride
Today evening in my village
Cold and peaceful in the air flow
The scent of the land of farming
In the tree jackfruit and mango
The birds ate a lot fruits
And singing song on...

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Strolling along the tooth-track, 
I lose my vibrant way in the *Black Forest.

Jackfruit flesh is tempting.
But there’s a hell beyond the heaven. 

I fall into the ravine of fatigue
from the crest of *Mysore Pak.
 
Kidneys...

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