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
- Astrophel and Stella: XX by Sir Philip Sidney
- Владимир Британишский – Тропа виляла
- The Heir Of Lynne poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Mama I’ll Sing One For You by Shel Silverstein
- Василий Жуковский – Герой
- The Given Heart
- Bob The Fiddler by William Barnes
- Владимир Высоцкий – Долго же шёл ты, в конверте листок
- Robert Burns: On Chloris Being Ill:
- Зинаида Александрова – Новый снег
- Song For A Summer’s Day by Sylvia Plath
- Омар Хайям – Друг, умей от пустой суеты отличать
- Kinetic Poem 2 by Roger McGough
- Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
- Proclamation Without Pretension by Tristan Tzara
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).
