Moynaa


Here's a poem by Joy Goswami. Thanks to Arindam Basu for this translation. We welcome your comments and questions about it. Use this form for contributing your own translation of a poem. .

Bengali Version
All these sweeping of streets at dawn
All these run-ins with the mistress
Dishwashin', chores of scrubbin' laundry
Bearing all these hurt,
The master's yelling
Babysitting, and
Running around to stores umpteen times a day
all these, for
for you're around the corner
for you wait with your rickshaw
for you pull your passengers along...
all these for that one sweet day,
when kicking 'em in their face,
you'll take me away, far away,
won't you, say you me?

(This translation was contributed by Arindam Basu arindam@aol.com )


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