Fufu Momo and Kottu
POETRY FORMAT, 24 Sep 2012
Udaya R. Tennakoon – TRANSCEND Media Service
Noises of different tongues
Occupying stoves in the kitchen
It is not belonged to any one
But belonged to a time
Spreading smells of continents
It is the global identity of art
Every one washes in same sink
Using the water in common
Asia Africa Arabia and Eastern Europe
People in the kitchen being refugees
Using material in same some extent
Make and cook the identity of own
Using flour and flour made
Decorate in an exhibition hall
Like amateur painters pain
Create noises and silence in mixture
Identity of meat flour and leaves
Transformed into their own
On and in the cooking pots
Steam becomes smells
Fufu[i] in the vessel
Pasta in very common
To be well cooked
An African guy in a struggle
Momo[ii] like oysters
Made in art by a Tibetan woman
A Nepali prepares Chapatti [iii]
Burnt culture of secularity
Leeks, Carrots and green chilly
Cutting into pieces Rotti [iv]
In a war like their home
Making Kottu[v] in loud
Everyone looking in surprise
Occupied Sri Lankans noise in kitchen
In two three hours war of kitchen
Gradually becomes calm
One of the oldest in the camp
In midnight begins to cook
Washing everything in psychiatric clean
Cooks Halal singing a song
He is called ex- mayor in his land
Midnight ghost of different rhythm
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Endnotes:
[i] A name for a food made by African region
[ii] It is a Asian food, especially cooked in Tibet, Nepal and India
[iii] A food name made by flour
[iv] A name of cooked food, can be seen in India, Nepal
[v] A name of food made in Sri Lanka
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Udaya R. Tennakoon – Poet/ Diaspora Writer/ Peace and Human Rights Activist. Student at the World Peace Academy, University of Basel, Switzerland.
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