Long Polythene Poems

Incredible! Where could little girl of her age be going under this cold weather at this hour barefootedly and bareheadedly?What could have sent a poor girl she was to street with just oversized slippers she...

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The rain which brought me back
To my childhood


It is heavily raining, while I am writing these lines.


Opposite my house it was raining all around,
I could see only rains and the showering clouds every where
Loaded with...

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The rain---sounds like catapults fired on our roof 
drops like palm kernels---splash on the back cover
 of our black pots, Stamping the roof like horse 
galloping on a...

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1. 
observing the ardent eagerness of the wind 
it is clearly understood 
that nascent pollens are overflowing 
the niche of her heart  

in response to the signals of the river 
she keeps on ringing...

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They talk so much but do little
Yes that’s it, for that is all they can do
When we used to walk distances on daily routine
It was enough to say things can be made better	
Horses, bicycles and...

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I tapped into my messages; the gas 
company wanted a piece of me, and 
my ex wanted to know when the 
month’s alimony  would be arriving.

But it was the last message which 
caught my...

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I could find in all of my short childhood,
No umbrellas around our neighborhood;
Farm-workers used palm leave woven structures,
That resembled head-gears said in scriptures...!

Our school lay less than a kilometer,
Rain torrents in June were true repeater;
Books...

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Madness, 
How nice they felt
To be free, 
From the dampness of humanity. 

They are plunged into a different universe
A free life of toils
A prodigal, 
Of a profilial, 

Feeding from oral to oval, 
Your earn for...

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harder than, a diamond
stronger than, a lion

JESUS IS... MY ROCK
and He's solid
awe and awesome
all this and He saves me

Jesus solid-Jesus  is the rock my rock, my rock, my rock
Jesus is, Jesus is my ROCK
Jesus...

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PLASTIC   BAG  PREJUDICE  AND   BIGOTRY

What’s that over there?
Don’t bother, it’s just another of those goddamned plastic bags,
Just a plastic bag, a thin polythene bag, 
Transparent, cheap, ugly:  seen...

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DON’T IGNORE THE NECK
One may not have in mind that 
As we struggle to create convenient ways of survival in comfort
We are stabbing our lives from behind;
We pursue riches and neglect our nature. 
We concentrate...

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Burgerama

Wrap it
Plastic box 
In fast polythene food it
As easy as frozen
And having children
Mash it
Mince it
Churn out time saving
Quick cut cardboard
Dinner
Is ready

Smell it
The regularity
Of air freshed
Puff
Repeats in timely separation
Of stinkless Molotov’s
Antiseptic illusions
Of falsehood

Scrubs the advertisement
Quick and...

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the third floor of a six-storied building,
silent room of three family members,
father, mother and a son

the son corporate job holder
in this populous city,
punctuality, sincerity, responsibility
makes him busy in his daily job

in the parent's room
crystal eye-glasses...

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my life is useful,not a joke,
i'm a plastic bottle,no not just for coke,
everyday i'm important to you,
without me you wouldn't get through.
think,how would you get your squeezy sauce?
or the washing up liquid of course,
cleaners for...

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In all my wondering across the crowd
I never dreampt of cause blood
That's not in our culture i thought 
"You heard that sound, i shout?"

Then sound another loud sound
lies ahead there abandoned, dead and unsound
Everyone run,...

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Listen my Obimo,
A beg you note this down ooh,
Am loooking foward to see you expectant,
Yeah,pregnant,
I want to see you carrying my small oggah in your stomach,
Am very ready for the task,
Worry less my sweet potato,
I...

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It arrived one day by morning post,
     from writing she knew from  foreign coast.
Small seeds packed in two polythene bags,
     had some criss-cross writing with strange...

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They give what they don't have:
Leaving their children to
the lion's paw to devour them,
while addressing the ills 
of others' children.

1)Wroughting diverse miracles are they.

2)Skilled in elating words,
even bailing heart out from
turmoil's prison.

'Nemo dat qoud non...

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Cold dawns and extremely chilly dusks
moving clouds stroll down very close to the Earth
vision blurred by dry mist
while humidity is tied in season’s personal polythene bag.

Air becomes a skeleton- ripped of its flesh
pain sensation, so...

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Roaming the village with black
beautiful girl tucked in arms
was Johnny the village god

Adored by older boys with
the world under his sure feet
As he stepped on his darling
round village girl.

Other boys his age cried:
no girlfriends of...

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Baked strands of air 
cut through my nostrils.
As a cloud of red hung above rooftops
so lads covered
their huge mouths and blood shot eyes 
with polythene bags.
 
The miserable trees had forcibly  
lost their green...

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Droplets of water hit the roof so hard 
I could barely hear myself think
as it washed down dirt from the corrugated 
roofing sheets.

The smell of dust hung around like 
the scent of incense burning from...

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I dreamt of a monocle night.
I saw; I was sitting upright.
As usual, the earth’s lamp was bright.
There-by unveiling some ants in fight. 
I saw a tired knight.
Seeking a shelter, to spend the night!
Helpless I was;...

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It's strewn everywhere, garbage of plastic
bottles floating forever in the sea.
choking and burning, in stench so toxic
homo-sapiens ...how long will you be ?

Fishes flush out dead within plastic trash,
pouring out of pipes, into the river.
species...

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There's wretched plastic everywhere
We drop it here, we chuck it there
We landfill it with urgency
We leave it there as legacy
We poison planet once pristine
We now despair of polythene
We see it blowing in the air ...

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