September 20, 2003 10:49 AM Akashe Jyotsna


Moonlight in the sky
On the Forest Trail the Scent of the Leopard
My Heart is like Deer
In the Silence of this night, which way am I going?
The silvery shadow of leaves on my body
No more deer anywhere
As far as I go I see the moon bent like a sickle
Cutting the last golden deer-grain
Then sinking slowly
Into the darkness of all the sleep
In the eyes of a 100 does

- Akashe Jyotsna by Jibonananda Dass. (I heard the poem translated as above in Hey! Ram.)

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