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When I was three
Blowing bubbles
Under my tamarind tree
Amma asked
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Sun's chrome rays
Wash my morning face
Parting it's ways
Through tamarind lace
...

A little long ago
A girl felt so alone
With a shapeless head that bore
Too much hair, too coarse
...

The clear brow wisps
The smiling lips
The calm it shows
Are not my own
...

It doesn't change
These earthly games
I bathe, I eat
And re-repeat
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A Denied Appeal
25, Male
Skin-Brown, pale
Height-6 inches over 5 feet
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The Best Poem Of Ila Sumam

Breaking Bubbles

When I was three
Blowing bubbles
Under my tamarind tree
Amma asked
'Do you know
Every life is
A bubble? '
I said no

After I turned ten
A sulking pre-teen, then
Amma said
'Each of a person's face
Is a bubble
Break the ones that hurt you
It works'
It worked

Now I've grown, evolved
So did Amma's bubbles
Whose number suffocated me
Deceiving charm hurt me

So I broke one of mine instead

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