The Dark Daughter
The dark daughter, dark not, but beautiful,
Call her not dark,
As she dark not, my dark daughter,
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The dark daughter
Dark you, dark the world,
Dark the Creation,
Where to go?
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Dark is dark, let it be,
Dark is dark, let it be,
What it was dark, is still now and will
Continue to be so in future,
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The Dark Goddess is none but Kali,
Mystical and Mythical,
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Dark Daughter, in making the statues of yours,
In sculpting you,
Drawing sculptures and figurines,
You ask the Divine Deity
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Poetry as the dark daughters,
dark, but lovely,
mythical and mystical,
symbolical and historical,
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The dark daughter, what do you know about her,
The pains behind the smiles of hers,
Outwardly dark-complexioned,
But inwardly working and toilsome,
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Jayanta Mahapatra, who are those dark daughters
You tell of
At the end of Relationship
Asking them to tell
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O, come you,
Come you and go seeing,
Seeing the Face,
The Face Divine
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Who's the girl in the sunglasses,
I mean the goggles,
Who the goggleswalli,
Why's she smiling,
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She may be dark, but is my lovely daughter,
Dark but affectionate,
Careful and loving,
How neglected is she,
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O, come, come, do come,
O come, come, do come
To see the Dark Goddess,
The Dark Goddess,
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In you dark daughter,
See I Kali, Bahgabati, Chandika, Shankari,
In you,
See I Bihula
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You come at least and see the Face of the Mother Divine,
At least come, do come and see
Before go you,
Go you,
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The mahua buds used to drip by
In spring,
The cuckoos cooing and pecking at
And the jackals howling underneath
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Dark is beautiful
As light comes breaking
And beaming from darkness,
Light and darkness are the two sides
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The idea and the image of the dark daughter
I got it
From the terracotta plates
Of the outer portions of the temples
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O come, come you and go seeing
The Dark Mother,
The Dark Divine,
O come you,
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Dark Daughter-
Tell you, tell you, who you are,
Tell me, tell me, who you are,
What your identity, where your home,
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The dark black girl smiling
In the sun-burnt dark hamlets
Shaded against the hills
Where the stories of hunger
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The dark daughter smiling in the dark sun-burnt hamlet homes
Against the backdrop of the hills
Dark and shining blue in the falling sunlight
Even in the midst of poverty, illiteracy and superstition,
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To talk of Jayanta Mahapatra is to talk of the dark daughters,
The dark daughters of the land which he refers to
At the end of Relationship
And this is in reality one of the mysteries of his poetry,
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Shakespeare, who is this dark lady,
Which talk you about,
Say you frankly
Rather than hiding in something,
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Dark daughter, where to go leaving you,
Your trouble, tear and tribulation
The world came to feel it not,
Your silent sobs and weepings
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The dark daughter
Sculpted on the walls
Of the terracotta temples
Depict and delineate I
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Poetry as the dark daughters,
The terracotta sculptures and figurines,
Daughters cut in stone
of maya and moha,
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Under the dark and lonely starry night,
Saw I two personae talking in whispers,
A drunk man and a drunk woman.
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A huge and magnificent statue of the Mother
You come and go seeing,
Have you, have you seen Her, if not go and see?
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The Dark Divine Maid,
You see the Leg of Hers,
Light sparkling it
Beneath.
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Shakespeare, keep us not in the dark,
Say it, who your dark lady,
The lady love whom
Describe you secretly and stealthily as the love of your poetry?
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The Dark Goddess,
Call Her Kali, the Dark One
In the dark and magnificent face of Hers
In wrath and anger
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It's true that you are somewhat dark-complexioned,
But your face-cutting,
Face-cutting is as such
That it is a foil to many a white-looking girl,
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The Dark Goddess
With the four hands
And with traditional arms,
A sinner-head and a sword
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Without praying to the Dark Goddess,
What is it attainable,
Without praying to the ordaining deity,
The Mother Divine,
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Your dark blues
My infatuation for, my inward yearning for them,
O, your dark blue eyes
My my quest for beauty!
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O, you, come, come; come, come and go seeing,
The face,
The Face Divine,
Huge and magnificent
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Into the deep blue and dark eyes of yours,
Read I a novel
Into the dark blue and deep eyes of yours
Read I a drama
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What is dark romanticism, I do not understand it,
I can just see the veiled beauty passing,
Covered under,
Only the dark, but beautiful eyes that I can see,
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Kali, the Dark Goddess,
Kali, Dark Black Kali,
Kali, Shyama Kali, Blue-coloured Kali.
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Poetry, the poetry of the dark daughter write I,
Mythical, mystical, symbolical,
Supernatural, nocturnal, religious,
Sociological, aboriginal,
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What it is dark will remain dark unto the last,
Dark is dark,
Let it be
As light comes dispelling it.
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Who the goggleswalli?
Can't say it?
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Dark Daughter, Dark The World, Dark You
Dark daughter,
Dark the world,
Dark the story of Creation,
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They ask me,
Who is the dark daughter,
But what to say to,
As I myself too am confused
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