Monday, January 9, 2023

Diaspora

 Don't dismiss them as prodigals

 in the world wide, they create a niche

 and there re(-)poses with them whole-n-sole

 soft but sure, the Eurydice soul.

 Porous selves with in-between identities

 Odysseus dreamin rainbows yond horizons

 re(-)turns ever Ithaca-wards

 always a 'native' in a foreign wor(l)d!

 Pratima@On the 'Prawasi as Niwasi' day, this acrostic hopes to capture the complex diasporic reality!






 

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