Thursday, September 12, 2013

Red Earth, and Pouring Rain

What He Said

What could my mother be
to yours? What kin is my father
to yours anyway? And how
Did you and I meet ever?
But in love
our hearts have mingled
as red earth and pouring rain.
 
Cempulappeyanirar
 
From the Tamil anthology "Kuruntokai"
Translated by A.K.Ramanujan, in"The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology".

Cempulappeyanirar wrote about 2000 years ago,  a poet of the Sangam age.
 

1 comment:

David Milligan-Croft said...

This reminds me of my book :-)

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