KAMASUTRA

It was the very first night,
and the young girl showed surprising skill
in the arts of love –
so much so that her husband held his head
in his hands, a little worried.
But she just laughed and painted a picture
on the wall – a lion cub,
only half-born, already leaping
at an elephant.

(By an anonymous poet, Translated from Kannada into English
by Velcheru Narayana Rao & David Shulman,
Indian Love Poems, Edited by: Meena Alexander,

Everyman’s Library, 2005, Page 79)

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