Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Poems

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1.
Light In The Night (For Amanda)

Do not ask me the whys and the wherefores;
poetry is anoetic; you might as well question the rooster
or the plums, why they put on spring blossoms.
But how and when poetry first came to me?
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2.
Good Versus Evil

Friends, kindred spirits, civilized people all…
I'm not here to defend evil or the Taliban.
“Behind the Veil” has exposed them as a
weird breed raising sabres against beards and TVs,
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3.
Self-Actualisation

Like Shelley with his ‘blithe spirit',
I have often tried to understand
this man named Kynpham.
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4.
A Letter To The Sky

The madman of Laitumkhrah
goes to the local post office
to post his letter to the sky.
‘A letter to the sky, how much? '
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5.
Temple

Deep inside a pine forest,
we sought the mountain.

Between Sohpet Bneng, our holy mountain,
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6.
Dystopian

We groan under the weight of Corona
the disruptions it has brought
the fear it has instilled in every heart
the cruelties surging from that fear:
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7.
Blasphemous Lines For Mother

R. K. Narayan is dead.
Tonight, he sits, pensive,
in his bamboo chair
talking of a ‘very rare soul'.
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8.
Killer Instincts

Gestating, she warned me
not to kill anything.
That was what her ancestors,
the old Khasis, had taught her.
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9.
Agartala Nights

I could stay forever in this warm town
of grey dust and chaotic rickshaws,
learning lessons as from a book of fables.
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10.
Hamartia

Girl of the highway!
I remember you yanking my nose
calling it “a cute duck nose”.
I remember you carrying off my watch
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