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Saturday, November 30, 2019

FIVE POEMS BY SUDESHNA MUKHERJEE: TINGED WITH HER OWN UNIQUE BRAND OF HUMOUR


Sudeshna Mukherjee's poems deal with varied human nature. A keen observer she chronicles the happenings around her and writes with a tinge of humour. She has two books to her credit and her poems easily rival Nissim Ezekiel's famed Pushpa poems and take on English in Mumbai.

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1.     THE CUE    (Malaprop)

Deer deer let me tail you 
How difficult eat is to stand in a cue 
When the son beats down on yew 

They say to save yourself from hit stroke 
Put an orion in your armpeat 
It sets me thinging how and whey 
Is eat seance 

Oh my senses cuddle 
Thinging such hard things 
While such thoughts raze there head
The cue moves froward 
A phew steeps 

The son steel continues to beat 
Beeds of aspirations tickles drown 
Strumming through my throat 
Clammy and dump 
Makes me fill so dam uncomfortable 

The pupil in front bee gin to get restless 
Sum even shout out lout 
The weandows putt their shooters down 
Faring that trouble might break out soon

These maid the crowd hungry 
Day shout abuse 
Eye really do not now 
How to retract 
To live the line 
Or
To bee in cue 

Soddenly the pupil star pelting stones 
A stampede stars 
An orderly made dyes eventfully 
Eye prey that her sole wrests inn peas 

The son steal continues beat down on ewe 
Hot and seering 
I never new eat would com to these
This sanding in a cue

2. RE-SESSION  (Malaprop)

Eat is that thyme of the ear 
When things turn downwards 
The kerb of the graphs 
Hades south 
Echonomists say 
Eat it is re session 
Pupil start to carve their ex pences
They start to horde 
By jiving a wide birth 
Two spending money 
They start two budge ate
Sum re member  
The Great Depression of 1929 
Many busy nesses collapse
Many reach people 
Gate roo weaned 

Hour be loved country 
Deed knot fill it then
Be cause wee were knot 
A freebie country 
Off course our echonomy 
Dead knot grow 

Now wee our told of the slew down 
Of the meld town 
News reeders predict a leak pitcher 
Butt eye do knot fill sow 
Given our demo graphics 
Demands will all ways bee their 
Sow the supply will remean two 

Resession will joust be a ward 
Ass we will knot fill eats effects 

The reach will fill sow proud 
Flaunting their reaches 
Whining dinning and partying 
Telling sundry a bout work 
Hardly working 
Paying dividends 

Eat is a wean wean situation 
Sea when we have wee men 
Having seventeen* to twenty-three* chill drain 
Per purse on 
How can supply fall 
Eat does not matter 
If the smothers fall seek 
So lounge as they can pro deuce 
So let us bid ad dew 
To Resession 
We halve over cum 
The grate deep-ression 



* Lankatai Kharat from Beed is pregnant with her 17th child though her mother-in-law Nadarbai claims the figure is in fact 20 .
Bismillah , a woman from Nuh in Haryana has given birth to her 23rd child in 2007  .






3. RETIRED HURT        

Have you heard the rumour 
That humour 
Has grown a tumour 

Thus began the murmur 
Then a Chinese whisper 
Liberally sprinkled with spicy
mixture

After much conjecture 
Came the clear answer 
"Humour had broken his femur"

Without further demur 
All agreed to concur
"Of no use " any further 

They slapped it with sticks 
Slapstick stuck like glue
It soon turned dark and rabid blue 

An indisposed humour 
Clearly had no saviour 
Limped limply out of favour 

So from now 
Don't ask how 
Serious will kow tow 
In reverence 
In reference 
In conference 
In every sense .




4. DRAMATIC  MONOLOGUE 
OF A MISTRESS                                        

Welcome to my boudoir gentlemen .
Please make yourself comfortable . 
The velvet atmosphere is awaiting your gracious presence .
I have already drawn the curtains 
Lit the lamps ; see how they are burning burning low in anticipation. 
The mogras and jasmine, are they not lending to the perfumed air ?
Yes , they are like us , always giving, always lending .
Oh , indulge me a little please . 
Every day , we , the chattels do your bidding ,
but today I am in a mood to give 
voice to my thoughts. 
Thoughts that burn holes, drill searing like lit torches .
Sir , please do not fidget. Can you not do this much for me , your favourite, as you always say ? 
Look how you cringe !
Have you read my thoughts like I have come to read your every mood ? 
Perhaps you do not realize 
I may be one of you . Blue blood coursing through my veins. 
Who knows? 
When you rhapsodise my cascading black scented curls 
When you sing eulogies over my rose pink lips 
When you praise my ability to please 
When you wrap your hands around my curvaceous frame 
I may have come from one of you .
Why are you smarting uncomfortably gentlemen .
Is it so unpleasant ? 
Have you ever thought it is because of your needs that we exist
It is always your needs that we have to satisfy.
We are born to cater to your needs .
I know there is no escaping it .
You come to us in the dark of the night as if afraid yet drawn by some pull !
Yes , how we allure, isn't it , pandering to your every whim 
Then why are we so defamed ? 
Why are we shunned? 
Is it so wrong ?
Is that the reason you come skulking silently stealthily slipping through .
Shall I fill your glasses with choicest wine ?
It helps you know 
Ahhh yes it helps I know 
It helps to forget the injustice 
It helps to forget the ignominy 
It helps to forget the shame 
It helps to forget the drudgery ......
We are the concubine
We are the mistress
We are the geisha
We are the much maligned keeps 
Don't we know we are the best kept secret out in the open 
Everyone knows but no one acknowledges 
But we are 
born only to satisfy 
born only to flesh 
born again in this vicious circle 
Do you know that our children have no future?  
Our girls will entertain your sons .
Our sons will become pimps . 
Wrong begets wrong. 
No, no, please don't stop me 
let it all come out 
Let me purge ! 
Let me cleanse my thoughts. 
Let me refill our glasses gentlemen 
For the night is still young 
For the pain is still raw 
The flesh is too demanding 
I want to be numb before I sink....... 
Come, tell me which room would you prefer -
the pink themed one 
Or, the one with Chinese dragon decor 
Or, perhaps the one with the strong incense burning to drive away all thoughts and 
just submit to the rot ..........


5. KICKED AND KICKING     

In a symposium of sorts 
In a luxe resort 
They assembled all 
To discuss in a large hall 
"How kicked are we at being kicked" 
They cheered to, "Hick !Hick! Hicked!"

They all chorused "Tell us Telstar"
"Have no fear I am kicked afar "
"From goal kick to side kick 
Only the referee makes me sick" 
An object of admiration 
They clapped in adulation 

"What about you deuce ball ?"
"For me nothing galls" 
They may change my colour 
Cherry red to white pallor 
"I am a hit all around 
In a maximum I may not be found "
"I am chased in a leather hunt"
In satisfaction they let out a collective grunt 

The moderator with a beaming face 
Asked the golf ball to join the race 
He had already charged a fee 
He chortled "They putt me in a tee"
Loud round of applause 
Reverberated without any pause 
"Hear! Hear ! Tell us some more "
"How many holes do you score ?"

Hmm how juvenile thought the yellow tennis ball 
In jealousy he butted in said with twang and drawl 
"They keep many of us" 
"With ease and no fuss "
"Some are kept in the warm pocket 
We sure have an invisible docket"
Yet all are lobbed to be smashed 
Aces hit not to be latched

Slowly but quietly rose the common man 
With a smirk for a smile and a face wan 
He left the large hall in search of refreshments 
Found a counter selling spurious condiments 
"Are you not kicked about getting kicked ?"
"If I go to tell my plight all will be licked."
Thus speaking he left with a wry smile 
No right no centre it's been all the while.



2 comments:

satbir chadha said...

Such varied content each time superb humour poetry

Devapriyo Chakravarty said...

The poems are truly interesting and touch a wide variety of emotions. The poem that represents the viewpoint of ‘balls’ in every sport is unique. The poem on the open-minded monologue of a mistress has various tinges of sarcasm – specially aimed at the so-called gentlemen! The malaprop ones have indeed some superb play on words!! Really enjoyed reading all the poems!

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