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"Kali" is a popular award winning poem by the eminent Indian writer, linguist and literary critic Rukmini Bhaya Nair. The poem won First Prize in the Second All India Poetry Competition conducted by The Poetry Society (India) in 1990. The poem has been widely cited and anthologised in reputed journals and scholalry volumes on contemporary Indian poetry. ==Excerpts from the poem== :A goddess chews on myth :As other women might on paan :Red juices stain her mouth. :Bored by her own powers :Immense and spectral, Kali broods :About Shiva, she is perverse. :She will not plead with him :Nor reveal Ganesha’s birth :She will not ask him home. :Shiva loves her, but absences :And apsaras are natural to him :No god is hampered by his sins. ::: * * * * * :Loneliness drives this goddess mad :She is vagrant, her limbs askew :She begs a mate, her hair unmade. :Fickle as Shiva, memory deserts her :Chandi or Durga or Parvati, which :Is she, which of her selves weeps here? :Even Ganesha, for whom she feels :Only tenderness, excludes her, even he :Seems impatient with her flaws. ::: * * * * * :Both gift Kali a companion eagle, hurt :By no arrow, fed on nothing, it returns :Each night to its eyrie in her heart. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kali (poem)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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