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
- Robert Burns: Highland Mary:
- Sonnet # 4 by Luis A. Estable
- The Eve Of Saint Mark. A Fragment poem – John Keats poems
- Summer by Luther Seahand
- Robert Burns: Talk Of Him That’s Far Awa:
- You are coming! by Preeth Nambiar
- Юлия Друнина – Баллада о десанте
- Global Warning by Mike Yuan
- The Voice of Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
- The Choral Union by Siegfried Sassoon
- Иван Бунин – Не видно птиц
- A Musician’s Wife by Weldon Kees
- So Small, So Vital
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- The Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
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).
