Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Kalidasa

A poem by the 5th century, CE, playwright and poet Kalidasa, known as India's Shakespeare, translated by Andrew Schelling.

Eyeing objects

crafted for pleasure,

hearing a strain of

sweet song,

even the satisfied

person grows restless,

taken by an inexplicable anguish --

perhaps

below the threshold of thought

traces of someone

loved then forgotten

           lifetimes ago -- 

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