Other People’s Poetry

 
For the Lord of the Caves

 
Looking for you light,
I went out:

it was like the sudden dawn
of a million suns,

a ganglion of lighnings
for my wonder.

O lord of caves
if you are light,
there can be no metaphor.


 
Allama Prabhu

Translation from Kannada by A.K. Ramanujan

 

 

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