Formal Reception

Formal Reception


I dress up
for one of life's
formal
receptions

clip on my head
one fall of false
fake hair

tame my unruly
tresses with
the spiked hairpin
of forbearance

let fall my
small talk
fringe or bangs

add on two
boastful
bling bling
ear rings

then - for defense
cover myself with
my stole --

There -
I'm all dressed up
to go.


English translation copyright Kyi May Kaung
4-4-2011

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Formal Reception

Mother Rape

Mother Rape
by Kyi May Kaung

All the trees are gone
to cook someone’s dinner
or turned into guns
—
the orchids are torn from the trees
clinging with every ounce
of their being, taking bark with them.

photo is credited to Rosalind Tay via Face book.

 အလိုုမတူရွာတဲ့ မိခင္


တစံုုတေယာက္ အတြက္ ညစာ ခ်က္ျပဳတ္ဖိုု႕...
ဒါမွမဟုုတ္
ေသနတ္ အလက္မ်ားစြာ ထုုတ္လုုပ္ဖိုု႕..
သစ္ပင္ေတြ အားလံုုး .. ခုုတ္ ျပစ္ လိုုက္ၾကျပီ...။

သစ္ေခါက္ေတြ ကိုု ဆြဲခြါ..
သစ္ခြ အျမစ္ ေတြ မွာ...
အင္အား ရွိသမ ွ်.. ကုုပ္ကပ္ ဖက္တြယ္ ထား လ်က္..
စုုတ္ျပတ္..ေၾကမြ...ေျမခ ခဲ့ ျပီ။

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(ျမန္မာလိုု ျပန္ဆိုုသူ -  ေက)

original source -  Mother Rape by Kyi May Kaung


 

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Mother Rape