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
- Владимир Высоцкий – Схвати судьбу за горло, словно посох
- Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive:
- “Young England–What Is Then Become Of Old” by William Wordsworth
- Remember the Tick by RD McManes
- Владимир Высоцкий – Серенада Соловья-разбойника
- Владимир Британишский – Буссоль
- My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- Олег Бундур – Про чемпионов
- Corn A-Turnen Yollow by William Barnes
- Ольга Ермолаева – Мир неприбран, подозрителен
- Владимир Маяковский – Порт
- Юнна Мориц – Веселый завтрак
- Владимир Корнилов – Анафемский сон
- Владимир Маяковский – Подписи к рисункам в журнале “ВОБ”
- My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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).
