Long Tiffin Poems

(Fictional, but based on the real experience of one of my close friends who lost her daughter in an accident)

 As I sat on my desk,
Hurrying with my pent up work,
A scrap of paper, left...

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First day of lockdown 
I was enjoying everything 
Had a healthy breakfast after that 
Watched tv ,played on line chess 
Had a good nap to complete relax.
About 11 o clock i left the bed
Put on...

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I miss those days when my lips really smilled
Eyes were sparkling and words didnt lied

The moment i woke and brushed my teeth
Ticking clock didnt worry me for my punch time sheet

Breakfast served was to fill...

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Flying Saucers, Flake, Bar Six
Country Style, Gobstoppers, Twix

Arrow Bars and Sherbert Dabs
Sweet Tobacco, Lucky Bags

Toffee Crisp and Dairy Crunch
Grand Seville and Milky Lunch

Beta Bars, Loot, Candy Floss
The mysterious chewing gum flavour loss

Golden Crisp, Nut Crisp...

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gone r the days
when the school reopened in june
& v settled in our new desks & benches.

gone r the days
when v queued up in book depot
& got our new books & notes.

gone r the days
when...

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So you've found someone new.
It's been 5 days. Not even a week
Is it true? I don't know. I hope not
It could just be a misunderstanding
Maybe she's lying to turn me against you
I just don't know
But...

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Lines more lunatic than the sun – 7

playing on the raw-coal 
the under-clothes of the airhostesses 
continue to sing a song

even-then the germination of the almonds 
can never become the sugar-candy 
made of palmyra 

may...

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Tug of war, Arm wrestling, Rope climbing, 
Wildest dance party, all dressed up smartly!
Slashing water upon each other in the front room and then trembling! 
We and the floor Sodden perfectly!
This is how, I stepped...

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Time crawled silently on soft paws.
After years of anxious waiting,
Our little nest became alive, 
With childish pranks and prattles
Two adorable boys ran round playfully,
Making our silent nest ring with noise.

Still remember those hectic days,
When my...

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A silence falls, swallowed by traffic’s hum,
I let out a sigh, inhaling exhaust and dust.
Her voice cuts through, steady, familiar,
“Which road takes us where?”
I don’t know, I never did.
But I hold the wheel, pretending.
She sits...

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when i came into this world, 
i was embraced by my parents
and was lying
in my mom's lap curled

they were very happy
as i was theiir first child
they were thanking the almighty, 
looked at me n smiled

small...

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SWEET SLAP    
         
               Being deprived of Mom’s love and...

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Betrothed, 
Please don't come to the college campus 
In a rosy costume like a blooming red rose,
I feel bad.
Don't move on  the corridors  with your swan walks 
Being surrounded by your friends 
Like...

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Thirteen books! And you are in class one,
And the answers to the difficult questions
Are my brother, long!

In the bushy country near the low hills,
Kids, calves spring in delight;
Cows and goats graze whole days.
The cowboys enjoy...

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I enter the school with big wide eyes – shining bright!
Oops! My heart jumping with joy at my best friend’s sight.
Here, I begin my flight.

The prayer begins, it’s a quirky quiet.
We may try hard but...

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STORIES  IN  POTTERY 


Bluebirds above the azure lakes
Burleigh cups  - willow pattern trees in gold leaf -
Once with mashed Sichuan oolong,
And on their side plates, shortbread tiffin,
While nephews in white laughed loudly...

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The funeral procession 
Moved in silence
Through the empty lane;
Otherwise,
A busier street of,
Puddles during rain,
And those buzzing horns off,
On all by-lanes,
Gave no goosebumps,
As always.
	
The sumptuous ride,
of the fabulous virus,
Created fear amongst the masses.
The funeral of my...

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Let me tell you 



Let me tell you matter of days
I was young enough just to play
Running without shoes in tiny legs
Collecting multiple wounds and scratches

No comparison I can make writing phase 
Honestly guys those...

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"Chirpy chirpy children ride a blue and white train"
( A caption of a rail journey photograph)


Blue and white box
As if your eyes 
Pictures in Inox
Outside a swarm of birds flies
     ...

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Every morning 
In my balcony 
I am watching 
A same story 

In that small room 
Every one are in hurry 
To load the things 
In the small bag
Loading the foods 
in the tiffin box,
Waking the...

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The familar ways
That are the school ways
Now become other's way
The unfamiliar ways
Where we fear to go
Now became familiar ways
The friendship with stapu.and cricket
Now turned in the friendship with COC and Candy crush saga
The last bench...

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Where is your visionary mind?
Why did you stop supporting them?
They need your help,
Why are you keeping mourn?

They are you child,
Do you remember when they felt sick?
In a night or a day, you ran to a...

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Such dusty mats of coconut, and hats,
and wicker chairs that creak; and chats, and cats
on sills that suck the early sun that spills
through glass to pass into the frills and twills
that talk and twitter, pass...

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Along the stream we gently float,
The little boat knows where to go
Our fingers trail where water drift,
While kisses gift our love to grow.
A fleeting touch where our lips meet,
As tongues greet the moistness within,
Those dark...

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It abides in the lintel, leaving only
to hunt in the klong.
It was here when we moved in,
we are the renting guests 
living under a large Monitor lizard.

Dawn coffee on the loggia,
the jungle going to sleep.
The...

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