Thursday, January 1, 2004

A Cowherding Girl Comments

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The plums tasted
sweet to the unlettered desert-tribe girl-
but what manners! To chew into each! She was ungainly,
low-caste, ill mannered and dirty,
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Dr Antony Theodore 18 September 2020

she'd tasted the nectar of passion. Might not know any Veda, but a chariot swept her away- now she frolics in heaven, esctatically bound to her god. great poem. tony

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paul paltu 29 March 2020

gloroius images and devoition

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Unnikrishnan E S 23 March 2019

Mira’s conviction that she was a cow-herd girl in Gokul in one of her previous births is wonderful. The preceding narrative adds beauty to this statement.

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Anchal roy 20 June 2018

This is so cute

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Indira Renganathan 09 March 2017

What a generous heart Mira had....a poem on love for God irrespective of caste and creed....wonderful

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Khandan Qaradaghi 14 January 2009

such beautiful imagery!

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