by Ajmer Rode
Kalli followed me eight miles
to the market where
animals were traded like slaves.
Cows goats bullocks camels
Kalli was black beautiful and six
prime age for a water buffalo.
She was dry. Repelled bulls as if she had
decided never to go green.
Hard to afford, my father decided
to sell her.
She obeyed as I led her
by the steel chain, one end in my hand
the other round her neck.
I was fifteen. Her nervousness was over
soon after we entered the market
where sellers occupied
their given spaces like matrimonials
on a large weekly page.
Kalli sat down with no emotion in her eyes
like an ascetic close to nirvana.
I sat stood walked around like a
neglected calf. Nobody bought Kalli.
She followed me 8 miles back home
I wasn’t sure if Father was sad
or glad to see her back. He just
looked at her like a family member
who had missed the train.
A few random poems:
- Омар Хайям – Что меня ожидает, неведомо мне
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Улетевшим мечтам
- My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
- Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV: HIGHWAY by Sir Philip Sidney
- Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut:
- Николай Языков – Посвящение А. А. Воейковой «Песни короля Регнера»
- The Rowers by Rudyard Kipling
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос иных миров
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Robert Burns: Grace Before And After Meat :
- Виктор Гюго – Без книги в мире ночь и ум людской убог
- Николай Языков – Послание к А. Н. Очкину (О, ты, с которым я, от юношеских лет)
- Низами Гянджеви – Из месяца лишь день прошел
- Solitude: An Ode poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Epigram—The Raptures of Folly by Robert Burns
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Poems in English
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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