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On the Middle East
Pradeep Chaswal – India

A morning in the desert
A street
Two girls playing marbles
An old hunchback vendor passing by
An old book with yellow pages on the table
A sleeping camel

The afternoon in a city
A jewellery showroom
A crowd of hooligans on its way
The stinking drains
A school locked

The evening in a town
A burnt beauty parlor
Hungry children in their mother’s lap
An abandoned garden
A new song on the old tape recorder

A dark night in the desert
A group of blind men in a circle
A one-eyed man in the middle
His hands carry a lantern …
And now
It is midnight
Bugs swarming on the Arabian Sea
Hovering over the oil wells

 

Pradeep Chaswal is a professor of English at Maharishi Markandeshwar University in Haryana State, India. He is a poet and critic who has been published in journals of national and international repute. He plans to publish a collection of his poems soon. Contact him at chaswal.pradeep@gmail.com.
 
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