Friday, December 3, 2021

PRATIK LA SPECIAL : AMBIKA TALWAR POEM

 

AMBIKA TALWAR

Wiry Young Man in Back-to-front Baseball Cap Waiting to Check in at Delta-Air France, Dimpled…

 


that he likes pictures

that he knows a man, so what he did, he drew a guy an old man

        1/2 white 1/2 black

that we need to do something crazy – craazzee

that we must paint, be amazing and creative

that he’s going to Paris to see his brother who has a new baby girl

that he is godfather to this baby girl – mom is French

that he’d like people to live in peace to live in peace

that that’s basically it – that’s it

 

that he’s Lebanese

that he’s lived in war all the time

that wherever he goes the war comes back to him (he laughs)

that peace is kind of boring but nice

 

that … is he going to be in a poem?

 

that he has no big dreams

that he is a principled person

that he has a friend in Bombay –  Mumbai?

that his name is Dravid ... (then wonders if I write from left to right)

that he travels a lot ... wants to know if I have been to Nepal

that he works hard – just works hard

that no he has not thought of it – has no big dreams

that he play soccer – that’s it...! That’s it!

that he never lie – likes pure – still likes that...

that he wants something pure and original – not fake!

that Lebanon is a nice country has four seasons is very small

that now in April it’s snowing and go to the beach the same time

       1/2 hour away

that raice is Phoenician – Raice! Raice!

that Lebanon distributed the letter – alphabet – to the world actually

that one-of-a-kind cedar only found in Lebanon

that it is very old…old, 3,000 years

that actually there’s a temple made in Palestine

that it’s made from this cedar – is mentioned in the Bible

that people of Lebanon they speak 3 languages – Arabic, French, English

 

that he’s going to Paris and the line is slow

 

that people in Lebanon – they don’t respect the law

that that’s bad – very bad

that it means peace – that Lebanon means peace

that it comes from the white skin of the orange – skin inside skin

 

that he never knew its meaning was peace ... and ... and freedom

        isn’t that ridiculous?

 

Ambika Talwar is an India-born poet-artist, educator, wellness consultant whose ecstatic poetry is a “bridge to other worlds.” She authored 4 Stars & 25 Roses (poems for her father) and My Greece: Mirrors & Metamorphoses, a poetic-spiritual travelogue. 

 

 

 

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