I've climbed up a betel-nut tree
Plucked and eaten up
a purplish-blue moon last night...
Before going in bed
I felt a soft tablet into my gullet
dissolving down...
I've truly consumed you
my baby, my bluish-purple moon!
Poem 12
Book 'Beckoning Jade-Dreams' April 2007
Copyright Musharrat Mahjabeen
Mizan Publishers, Dhaka, Bangladesh
ISBN 984-8700-82-X
Aug 20, 2012
Aug 20, 2012 at 8:06 AM UTC
I've climbed up a betel-nut tree
Plucked and eaten up
a purplish-blue moon last night...
Before going in bed
I felt a soft tablet into my gullet
dissolving down...
I've truly consumed you
my baby, my bluish-purple moon!
Poem 12
Book 'Beckoning Jade-Dreams' April 2007
Copyright Musharrat Mahjabeen
Mizan Publishers, Dhaka, Bangladesh
ISBN 984-8700-82-X
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