Long Washroom Poems

I can feel this thread running all over me, it’s like I am connected to the deep blue sea and the current is pulling me into the deep dragging me towards an unplanned destiny; the...

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"Will there be a need for a throne;
To sit on
In heaven
Fecal matter will it matter
Will we eat and consume manna foods
And do angels discharge sweat and waste
Oh! Are there need for thrones in heaven?
lavatory
bathroom
facilities
urinal
privy
latrine
outhouse
WC
water closet
public...

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‘Our House

We bought our house in 1968, for eighteen hundred pounds.

A little terrace in a row, anything bigger was out of our bounds.

It had a loo in the garden, a bath downstairs, three bedrooms.

After a...

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SKITTLES


© RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY

28 OCTOBER, 2014





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When I was young my mom, like most women, donned a hat when she went out.
Dad said it added to her beauty…of this I had no doubt.

My mom had a collection of hats she stored...

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Four and five decades ago a washerman
 lived in my village named Fanne
 handsome, amazing and funny.

  Month of Falgun, month of joy
  got more fun when Fanne put on
  fancy costume...

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POOP - TALE : for contest

No embarrassment , everyone poops
So relaxed is the feel after all 's out
No gold and riches can ever buy such feel
I am sure all will agree silently though!
We get that...

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>>>>>>>>>A traveling sales man was driving home one night,
                     He was about six hours out...

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He’d have to take his new jeans off to swim
Or mom is sure to paddle his tail.
So, his skinned them off, climbed atop the railroad bridge,
 folding them with the greatest care, laid them on...

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If you sit tight, and promise not to spite
I will tell you a story, when I was not in my glory
grade one, a new chapter
who knew my teacher would be a captor?
that’s right! I said...

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That day he could not forget,
He was in washroom getting wet,
A sharp pain rose in his chest,
He could only sit at best,
He could stand,
But the body lay there like a heap of sand,
He walked up...

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Mary walks, silently, down the street,
ignoring all the distractions,
she has a single, focused mission in mind,
to enjoy and straighten out her own thoughts,
that are wondering back and forth.

Mary picks up what she is looking for,
pays...

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I met a Mr. Dreamy handsome guy on a dating site,
and talking and texting him was a delight !

After a few weeks we decided it was time to meet,
and without hesitated I said yes...

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I’m No One
Tasmina Khan
May 8, 2021

Caring too much has made my entire existence not existent to anyone, anymore.
I’m staying unnoticed by people who I care about every second, from my heart’s core. 
‘Too much of...

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The face in the mirror 
Looks back at me
It’s not a face 
I’m happy to see
It’s withered and aged 
Like a wrinkled old prune
My expiry date’s past
God, please let me die soon

My bones they do...

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Dear Curious Youth

And inquisitive Sleuth

I present to you a quandary


A baffling report    

An enigma of sort

Whenever I do my laundry


It’s quite odd enough

That some certain stuff

Go missing before I’m through


Between warm, rinse...

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The witch awaits her chance to ride her broom
On Hallow’s Eve she does so love to zoom
Dressed in her black cape and stunning costume 
Her cat on the back they fly o’er the moon.

Witch prepares...

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This is actually a true story. A long time ago when I use to live on a homestead, we had grown many turkey's. Sometimes they were better watch dogs than a dog. I was inside...

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Today, even after ages, I feel my cheeks grow hot
Thinking of the blunder I made, comes back to thought!

Freshly out of school, silly and ignorant that I was,
Of work site I knew nothing, but was...

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Shadow Games

While my back was turned, you slipped into the store,
Went to the washroom, then out once more.
You could’ve retraced your steps, stayed out of sight,
But you leapt the chain—made sure I’d catch the sight.

You...

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In a public washroom, can Kings ever be DEthroned?
When a cowboy moves to the city, is he DEranged?
Do photographers wishes sometimes DEvelop?
Are former famous models ever DEposed?
When a ship leave for the Caribbean, is it...

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The days of school 
were so cool

All my friends
follows the trend

one stylish 
another saying ish....

on the corner ,sitting a couple 
teacher looks them purple .

the class monitor ,
cum sister/brother 

the most handsome 
everyone say come...

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I remember you fading in a playground frenzy,
Like the love and hate
Scribbled in the washroom stalls.
You wore a purple velvet hat
In September's warm glow,
And the same jacket as me;
Black with coloured flowers,
A zipper that always...

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Everything was pink for Zee when she was a child
Hot pink, light pink, medium pink, nothing blah or mild
Pink bed, pink pillow, pink closet, pink clothes, pink doll
If it was not pink, Zee simply did...

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Everything was pink for Zee when she was a child
Hot pink, light pink, medium pink, nothing blah or mild
Pink bed, pink pillow, pink closet, pink clothes, pink doll
If it was not pink, Zee simply did...

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