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.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Topic(s) of this poem: brothers,grandmother
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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Pratapgar, Uttar Pradesh, India
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