The Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-Daro: And Other Poems

By R. Balachandra

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669879510

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THE DANCING GIRL

OF MOHENJO-DARO

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You’re pretty and slim, dark and tall.

Plenty of bangles and a bracelet and an amulet

A necklace with three pendants adorns your chest.

But your legs and feet have no ornament.

Your head is coiffed in a gentle wave.

Enhancing the beauty of your face,

With your long arms and long legs, you’d be

A supermodel today of any race.

You seem to be so young, hardly fifteen.

But you are confident and look at the world

With insouciance and much arrogance

From your poise and beauty impearled.

Is this the pose in one of your dances?

Or are you just keeping time to the music?

You are completely nude, but you are at ease

Not caring a whit about your future karmic.

I wonder whether you sang to the music,

Or tapped your foot to the drumbeat.

Was this a party, or was it in the temple

Where you danced to please the rich effete?

We know so little about you, your life,

About your hopes, about your desires.

You appear to have no worries in your world

And you don’t care at all for your attires.

RUINS IN THE SKY

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Green cliffs all around, deep chasms between,

Terraces of manicured grass and relaxing llamas,

An island in the sky with valleys too far below.

Steep steps leading to the guard house and the top,

Ruins of stone houses and walls at different levels,

The sun temple and the temple with three windows.

It was a fort, it was a royal retreat, it was a temple,

It was a lost city, or anything imagination suggests.

Nothing is known, nothing is certain, only relics abound.

Crowds of people brave the trail, while most

Others take the easy way out by riding the bus.

It’s still an adventure whichever way one goes.

The arduous trail starting from a long way away

With wondrous views of the Andean vistas, feeling

Sick and seeing grandeur while walking on arêtes.

Mighty empires rise