{"id":21753,"date":"2012-09-24T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=21753"},"modified":"2012-09-24T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T10:51:43","slug":"fufu-momo-and-kottu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/09\/fufu-momo-and-kottu\/","title":{"rendered":"Fufu Momo and Kottu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noises of different tongues<br \/>\nOccupying stoves in the kitchen<br \/>\nIt is not belonged to any one<br \/>\nBut belonged to a time<\/p>\n<p>Spreading smells of continents<br \/>\nIt is the global identity of art<br \/>\nEvery one washes in same sink<br \/>\nUsing the water in common<\/p>\n<p>Asia Africa Arabia and Eastern Europe<br \/>\nPeople in the kitchen being refugees<br \/>\nUsing material in same some extent<br \/>\nMake and cook the identity of own<\/p>\n<p>Using flour and flour made<br \/>\nDecorate in an exhibition hall<br \/>\nLike amateur painters pain<br \/>\nCreate noises and silence in mixture<\/p>\n<p>Identity of meat flour and leaves<br \/>\nTransformed into their own<br \/>\nOn and in the cooking pots<br \/>\nSteam becomes smells<\/p>\n<p>Fufu<a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn1\">[i]<\/a> in the vessel<br \/>\nPasta in very common<br \/>\nTo be well cooked<br \/>\nAn African guy in a struggle<\/p>\n<p>Momo<a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> like oysters<br \/>\nMade in art by a Tibetan woman<br \/>\nA Nepali prepares Chapatti <a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn3\">[iii]<\/a><br \/>\nBurnt culture of secularity<\/p>\n<p>Leeks, Carrots and green chilly<br \/>\nCutting into pieces Rotti <a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn4\">[iv]<\/a><br \/>\nIn a war like their home<br \/>\nMaking Kottu<a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn5\">[v]<\/a> in loud<br \/>\nEveryone looking in surprise<br \/>\nOccupied Sri Lankans noise in kitchen<\/p>\n<p>In two three hours war of kitchen<br \/>\nGradually becomes calm<br \/>\nOne of the oldest in the camp<br \/>\nIn midnight begins to cook<\/p>\n<p>Washing everything in psychiatric clean<br \/>\nCooks Halal singing a song<br \/>\nHe is called ex- mayor in his land<br \/>\nMidnight ghost of different rhythm<\/p>\n<p>*****************<\/p>\n<p><strong>Endnotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> A name for a food made by African region<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a> It is a Asian food, especially cooked in Tibet, Nepal and India<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a>\u00a0 A food name made by flour<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref4\">[iv]<\/a> A name of cooked food, can be seen in India, Nepal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref5\">[v]<\/a> A name of food made in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>___________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Udaya R. Tennakoon \u2013 Poet\/ Diaspora Writer\/ Peace and Human Rights Activist. Student at the World Peace Academy, University of Basel, Switzerland.\u00a0<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noises of different tongues<br \/>\nOccupying stoves in the kitchen<br \/>\nIt is not belonged to any one<br \/>\nBut belonged to a time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}