The Khoyai and My Childhood Dreams

By parantap ketan

Sun, 18 May 2008
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In my Childhood I had many dreams...
Sweet and Tender and Vast .
..and I had the Khoyai(1).

Both have suffered the same fate now!-

Concrete blocks have stunted the vastness

and the horizons have been lost forever !

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Note

[1]Khoyai is the word in my native tongue Bangla ,for vast eroded lands of red clay.The nearest patch of khoyai to my home ,was taken up by developers to build a housing complex .We lost in the courts and lost the Unspoilt natural beauty fore ever .In this poem i equate that to another loss that of the innocent optimism that i had in childhood.

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Comments

Submitted by HaiAnh on
The note seems to compliment the poem here, I wondered if you had considered intergrating footnotes into you style of poetry. It would be a kind of glossary of poems when the reader can enjoy them and also learn from them. This would be especially good in this case, where you have a minimalist poem balanced by the explantory note. I am part of a Bangladeshi writers group called brine pickles and have a keen interest in Bangladesh, so I am looking forward to reading more of your work.