Listen o listen:
Hark this tale of Khanaa
In Bengal in the Middle Ages
Lived a woman Khanaa, I sing her life
The first Bengali woman poet
Her tongue they severed with a knife
Her speechless voice, ‘Khanar Bachan’
Still resonates in the hills and skies
Only the poet by the name of Khanaa
Bleeding she dies.
(“Khanaa’s Song,” a poem by the author, translated by Amitabha Mukherjee)
Copyright ©: 2011, Mallika Sengupta
End of the poem
15 random poems
- It’s Dark in Here by Shel Silverstein
- Ode–Shell The Old City! Shell! by William Gilmore Simms
- Яков Полонский – Нищий
- Федор Тютчев – Как нас ни угнетай разлука
- Knoxville Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni
- “Advance – Come Forth From Thy Tyrolean Ground” by William Wordsworth
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона вторая
- Longing by Sara Teasdale
- Наум Коржавин – Люди пашут каждый раз опять
- Алексей Толстой – Ты почто, злая кручинушка
- A Star in a Stoneboat by Robert Frost
- Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Орлов – Белые стихи о черном пуделе
- Love’s Unity poem – Alfred Austin
- The Bonifratrian Hospital by Nijole Miliauskaite
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
