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Poems in Khasi by:
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
- India
HIRAETH
(HIRAETH¹)
LINES WRITTEN TO MOTHERS WHO DISAGREE WITH THEIR SONS’ CHOICES OF WOMEN
(KI KYNTIEN SHA KI KMIE KI BYMHUN IA KA JINGJIED SAMLA JONG KI KHUN)
PLAY OF THE ABSURD
(KA SAWANGKA KI THAMULA)
THE ANCIENT ROCKS OF CHERRA
(KI MAWSIANG KULONG KUMAH KA SOHRA)
THE FUNGUS
(KA JINGPHUH TIT)
WHEN THE PRIME MINISTER VISITS SHILLONG THE BAMBOOS WATCH IN SILENCE
(HABA U MYNTRI RANGBAH HA SHILLONG U WAN HIARKI SIEJ JAR JAR KI SHU IA PEIT SIAR)
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THE HABITUDE OF THE EYES 34
I am the rain that quenches the earth’s thirst, a pregnant gift, no …
POEM
THE CITY IS DESIGNED VERY WELL
The city is designed very well. Moving about is easy even for someone like me …
POEM
Still too tired not to be still
Still too tired not to be still you come and sit for a vigor not knowing how to be …
POEM
GOODBYE MY TWENTIETH CENTURY (I)
A forest, evolving blue inside the dream. There is where I used to go as a …
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ROOKS OVER AVEBURY
There must have been a score of them, all lift-and-dip-and-fluster, beak and …
POEM
ARRIVAL AT SANTOS
Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some …
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