Before the City Dawns
...(A subaltern dawn song...)
We rise before the rooster cries,
Before the sky begins to blush,
Before the bosses sip their tea,
We sweep the silence with a hush.
The city sleeps ...
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Categories:
subaltern, absence, city, earth, good
Form: Free verse
Sipping Tea at a Brothel
...He pays.
He leaves.
And she bleeds quietly.
Some come for release,
others for control.
Some come to forget.
Some to remember.
Some to be punished.
Some just come because it’...
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Categories:
subaltern, culture, desire, kiss, passion,
Form: Free verse
On the Streets-A Subaltern Work
...And on a dark night, I closed my eyes
So much was the calm even the best dream defies
With a flash of light and voices ended the peace
I saw unknown faces and I realized I was on the streets.
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Categories:
subaltern, city, class, conflict, destiny,
Form: Free verse
International Women's Day March 8th 2018
...less than half a dozen hours
remain here in Lake Woebegone,
an idyllic enclave, where legal tender,
liquid assets, minted monies
by the metric ton
loot, et cetera replaced
with sh...
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Categories:
subaltern, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Subaltern
...SUBALTERN
Love is nothing but dust bin.
Enjoy and throw, want to mean.
I saw that blemished gentleman Mr Narang.
Enjoying a shabby dressed young.
A bird is at hand is worth two in the bush. ...
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Categories:
subaltern, sympathy,
Form: Classicism