Chewing Slowly Poem by Kabir

Chewing Slowly

Rating: 3.4


Chewing slowly,
Only after I’d eaten
My grandmother,
Mother,
Son-in-law,
Two brothers-in-law,
And father-in-law
(His big family included)
In that order,
And had for dessert
The town’s inhabitants,

Did I find, says Kabir,
The beloved that I’ve become
One with.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ric Bastasa 02 May 2012

cannibalism must be good and holy?

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Sylvia Frances Chan 06 September 2021

Kabir touches the soul, the conscience, the sense of awareness and the vitality of existence in a manner that is unequalled in both simplicity and style. Kabir owned this philosophy in his life, for us commoners a great problem to unravel.5 Stars full

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Brook Renwick 06 September 2021

Because he hurt the ones he loved as people do sometimes.

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Chinedu Dike 01 September 2021

Perhaps, there's a hidden message in this poem, it's really difficult for me to fathom.

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Steve Sandoval 01 September 2021

ok

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sa re ga ma pa 01 September 2021

He means understanding when he says eating

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Kabir

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Pratapgar, Uttar Pradesh, India
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