Born at Imphal, Manipur (an ancient asiatic kingdom formerly known as kangleipak before it became a part of India in 1949) , Ibohal kshetrimayum writes poetry only when the muse insists. He, therefore, believes in the passivity of a poet, who receives every poem as a gift from his muse. He neither claims ownership of his poems nor ascribes what is received to his virtues. He is a retired civil engineer who waits for poems to come to hm without forcing one from himself.
Names intrigue me the most.
Even mine does!
Come to think of it,
I was named even before I knew
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Like clothes you wear me
Like a tool you use me
Like ink you pour me
And write stories
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In the hills of seven huts,
Where war is either a name or surname,
And dreams are translated into numbers,
And a number became a gambler's sad song,
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