Tag: words
member name: Max Babi
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August 11, 2006 08:25 AM EDT --
As you emerged from the clouds
the sun curled up like a guilty dog,
the roaring sea spewed forth
gentle stories of love,
a vagrant breeze splurged
its healing powers on my frayed nerves. . . .
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August 23, 2006 03:15 AM EDT --
Why is it that our best words
Lie unexpressed, die unexposed?
Why do our finest emotions, always put off
like friendly debts, wither away stunted?
Articulation like an automatic rifle . . .
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March 11, 2007 11:51 PM EDT --
'Saath' meaning companionship is an Urdu poem, very contemporary in flavour but timeless in all its implications, by the prodigiously talented Parvin Shakir :
Parvin Shakir
Saath . . .
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April 15, 2008 04:27 AM EDT --
I want to stuff you
with my words -
limpid and floppy.
Regurgitated
they'll emerge,
frisky, electric and bounding.
(c) Max Babi
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February 14, 2009 02:20 PM EST --
Your eyes sparkled with an unmistakable gleam
across a roomful of heads swaying gently to my words
your smile like an unspoken hint hovered between
exapnses of my fevered imagination . . .
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January 02, 2009 01:59 PM EST --
The idle query, will the world end
in fire or ice, failed
to rivet my attention.
Human actions can be explained
by fear or hunger -now that's food for thought.
Fear of reprisal, brought . . .
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April 01, 2008 02:21 PM EDT --
Here's another Gujarati poem I wrote recently
Satsangno bhukhmaro vethyo chhe kyarek?
Khadbadti tha-un tha-un karti shabdo ané
lagnioni ulti rokye rakhi chhe varsho sudhi?
Padchhayana . . .
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November 30, 2007 05:01 AM EST --
Of late I have been 'transcreating' Urdu poetry from poets who are not published as yet, which seems like a safe bet from the publishing hassles pointed out by some pundits here.
Last . . .
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