Without dipping the nib
Into the ink-pot,
Struggling to publish,
Doing the proof-reading,
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He will come smoking ganja
And will beat me,
He will come drinking
And will beat me
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Modern day mom
Breast-feed you please,
Not bottle-feed you.
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To talk of the northeast of India is to talk of the indigeous,
Indigeneous people and indigenous culture,
Tribal and aboriginal
With a diversity,
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There is nothing in history,
Just the historians like to take the credit from,
Full of treachery, loot, plunder and destruction,
The barbarians taking time to finish it all
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Whenever I see, you appear to be a blooming lotus,
A lotus blooming
With the pearly dews splashed over
And with,
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Narrative poetry
And the poet a narrator in verse,
Lyrical poetry
And the poet a singer of the heart,
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The phantoms of time speaking
In the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra
As the silent listeners
And the unknown horse-rider
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Maya my wife,
Maya my son, my daughter,
Maya my life, my world,
Maya my house.
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