Poetry
For a Poem
Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. I go near a tree and utter: Oh kind tree, can you provide me a poem? The tree..
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Notes from a Himalayan Village
A constant hammer on wood and a distant conversation. Two voices, two villages, Separated by a river that scorns The silence and floats into my..
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Cartography of a Broken Town
i. a city of stuttering street lamps, sinking paper boats & swirling streets, you were born into/ shadows possessed you till you laughed at your..
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Oh Freedom
Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. Freedom, you’re The classic verses of Tagore, timeless lyrics. Freedom, you’re Kazi Nazrul a great man with thick..
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Inadequacies and Reassurances
I will sleep tonight, I tell myself Despite the insomnia that developed After you left, like the filth that washed up— Mainly broken bottles of..
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Shit poetry
Shit poetry went for poetry festivals sponsored by corporates drunk champaign wrote about rain flowers, cherry tree, birds, butterflies, clods, love and sex in the..
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Mother Tongue
“If you write in English, you cannot know your own emotions.” ~ a poet I once met Mother’s tongue. Say it slow to staunch the..
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Riches
Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. When I stand the wall reflects the shadow, My very own shadow. Two eyes are there Behind the..
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The Moon Machine Begins
They’re selling the projected lightshow pyramid scheme selling the world one way tickets to all tomorrow’s parties they come wrapped in self-reflexive electrical tape hand..
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Grandmother Boogie
My grandmother sang the song from Jaws Show Me The Way to Go Home fire danced a double Dutch Yiddish hopscotch pinkie ball capoeira smoked..
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Technicolor Sweet and Sour Grapes
You said yes because you believed it would flood you with shiver broken glass blizzard colored not ash showered Schindler but 2001 What Shall We..
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Terracotta Soldiers
Here is nothing that burns yellow giving the light that raised civilisations and enabled following civilisations to see it happening. Yellow, the colour of..
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what poetry should do
They were debating what poetry should do best. One says that it should break the shackles of papers strip the oppressive paperback clothing run through..
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Lighthouse
My son has ears filled with light It is filled so hard with light it Shuts out the noise. I pray he heals of blindness,..
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How do you remember your childhood?
As a pair of overworn ghungroos, their gentle patter across the linoleum floor. My master’s feet fluttering around the room in circles. The poetry of..
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Aunt Laura, Where’d You Go?
I sit at the edge of my driveway drinking an apple juicebox, staring at my purple toenails. I’m eighteen but parts of me have never..
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Family History
Born 1931 Here, by afternoon the sun slants down like candelabra; heart of mangoes shimmied fairy dust on her back. My grandmother picks the thumba..
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At the Bar
I sat at the bar between two men ones ear had recently been cut off he still wore the bandages and the other had one..
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Near Metro Station
A water tank for Allauddin Khilji now stinks of affluence- melts old in new. Memory snakes in through these yellow tunnels like a ghost in..
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The Rights of the Dying
I see that everything you’ve done is gentle. Let me die gently. Let me breathe a long cotton breath and be done with it. Don’t..
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The Night Lou Reed Died
Dreams to live to die by sometimes shuddering our way home whilst we tried to recall our listless motivations
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The Beresford Tomb
Thomas Beresford fought under Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt. He settled in Fenny Bentley in Derbyshire with his wife Agnes, an heiress with…
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Love Affair in Poppy
I read your message in a Garda cafe, miles away from your German stopover. You were en route to fight some war, that lasted longer…
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Autumn
The way she says “you naughty man” when he brushes past her derrière all adds up. So he puts on “Say Wonderful Things To Me”…