Lind’s prompt for #SoCS this week…
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “language.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
So here we have a poem I penned, which was inspired by a post a wrote a while back. It’s linked to the last word of the poem, if you wish to click through and read!
My mother tongue
is Punjabi
Mixed with accents
of Swahili
But what I speak
the most at home
At work, at school
and on the phone
Is English because
that’s where I was born
To choose a first language
I am always torn
My ‘mother tongue’
or my ‘step mum’ one?
To accept one,
the other to shun?
Or to celebrate
the presence of all three
And to call it
Pun-gli-hili?
But I Smile Anyway... 
May 17, 2017 @ 15:53:06
Bilingual people here made a cool word for our language (Bangla) and English- it’s Banglish lol
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May 17, 2017 @ 16:33:07
Lol cool!!!
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May 14, 2017 @ 17:47:11
Love this Sis. You have so many strings to your bow, and I envy you being multi-lingual! 🙂
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May 14, 2017 @ 18:13:22
Aw shucks sis! This one I was born with!!!
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May 13, 2017 @ 19:51:11
I think it is amazing to grow up with more than one language!
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May 13, 2017 @ 21:57:35
We are lucky sis😚
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May 14, 2017 @ 14:02:50
You are 💖
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May 13, 2017 @ 17:46:56
Fabulous! 🌹🌹😎
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May 13, 2017 @ 19:14:02
😊😊😊
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May 13, 2017 @ 12:32:31
Great effort !
I think poetry is your forte- you are amazing at it. I feel you are like Fatty in the Five Find outers. 🙂
Susie
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May 13, 2017 @ 12:35:25
Aw thank you so much Susie!!!!! I do love to write a poem!
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May 13, 2017 @ 13:03:18
And they are grand !
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May 13, 2017 @ 12:21:27
Very clever Sis just like you.
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May 13, 2017 @ 12:24:53
Aw thanks sis!
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May 13, 2017 @ 11:30:41
This is awesome, Ritu.
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May 13, 2017 @ 12:10:59
Glad you enjoyed Robbie!
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May 13, 2017 @ 10:39:12
Pung-li-hilli sounds excellent. It’s all about diversity 🙂
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May 13, 2017 @ 10:51:01
And I’m all about diversity!!!
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May 13, 2017 @ 09:59:41
Lol…..There’s beauty in diversity….learn and celebrate all three..
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May 13, 2017 @ 10:33:29
I totally believe that too 😊
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May 13, 2017 @ 06:29:02
It just means you are a lot smarter than most all Americans unfortunately for us.
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May 13, 2017 @ 07:42:19
As thanks Cindy! I only wish it were true lol!!!
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