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:
- Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju by Yosa Buson
- To Ailsa Rock poem – John Keats poems
- The Fool Errant poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – В тюрьме Таганской нас стало мало
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- A Wintry Picture (II) poem – Alfred Austin
- Cotton and Corn by Thomas Moore
- Robert Burns: Address To The Shade Of Thomson: On Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with a Wreath of Bays.
- Mohini Chatterjee by William Butler Yeats
- I See Your Beauty by Ronald G. Auguste
- Feelings of A French Royalist, On The Disinterment Of The Remains Of The Duke D’Enghien by William Wordsworth
- Юрий Левитанский – Кто-то так уже писал
- The Rhyme of the Three Captains by Rudyard Kipling
- Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary by Robert Burns
- Новелла Матвеева – Художник, незнакомый с поощреньем
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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