Countryside Names Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

If you tour and travel across the countryside, you will come across
Strange and typical names doing the rounds,
Dhilahi, Lousey, Bhagjogini, Glow-Worm,
Kaari, Blackie, Gouri, Fair, Kajari, Slippery and Dark Green.

A few villagerly girls named,
Titali, Butterfly, Tikli, Beauty Spot On The Forehead,
Pulki, Spirited, Lakhia, In Lakhs,
Champa, Indian Jasmine,
Nagin, She-Cobra, Jivan, Life.

Some rustics named,
Fela, Abandoned, Thela, Push-cart, Dhela, Lump of Soil,
Hurwa, Swept Off Thing, Dhurwa, Dust,
Tiki, Clamp of Hair Hanging From The Back Head,
Foksha, Swollen, Nagraja, King Cobra,
Pocha, Rotten, Lambu, Taller, Patlu, Thinner.

The countryside people keep strange names meaning or unmeaning,
They distort and present jocularly
In their own way,
Some have got meaning and some do not have.

Darpiya, Daru-Taken, Mataal, Inebriated, Piyakkad, Drinker,
These are humorous names
And can be surnames, pen-names,
To be used as alias as for taking,
Ganjeri, Ganja-Taker, Bhangeri, Bhang-Taker.

Ramdhuni, Lost In Ram’s Rhythm, Ramdhani, Ram-Rich,
These are popular in villages,
Murali, Flute, Pujari, Worshipper.

Aadhkhopari, Half-Headed, Tin-Mudiya, Three-Headed,
Appear satiric and tickling when use we
For somebody else as for our comments,
But for difficult people to deal with.

Similarly, someone’s wife named Naulakhia, Nine Lakhs-Bearing,
He father might have got that at her birth,
Hence, her name Naulakhia
And with her money a marble palace may be built in her memory.