The Cat
Again and again through the day
I meet a cat.
In the tree’s shade, in the sun, in the crowding brown leaves.
After the success of a few fish bones
Or inside a skeleton of white earth
I find it, as absorbed in the purring
Of its heart as a bee.
Still it sharpens its claws on the gulmohar tree
And follows the sun all day long.
Now I see it and then it is gone,
Losing itself somewhere.
On the autumn evening I have watched it play,
Stroking the soft body of the saffron sun
With a white paw. Then it caught
The darkness in paws like small balls
And scattered it all over the earth.
— Jibanananda Das
Translation Lila Ray. Poem courtesy Minstrels.
Oh,Bilkul.
Comment by mumbaigirl — March 26, 2007 @ 11:59 pm
Bilkul :P
Comment by Truman — March 27, 2007 @ 10:38 am