Alankar(Decor)-227 Poem by Indira Renganathan

His Waiting Love(Kakuhb)

Sanskrit Poetry

Crossing over from Vedic to improved Sanskrit (perfected)language,
there was an overlapping period and from 700 B.C. through 1100 A.D.
Sanskrit poets provided narrative and heroic tales.
Sanskrit poetry also often celebrates love and desire.

Kakuhb is a stanzaic Sanskritform.
The defining features of the Kahuhb are:
stanzaic, written in any number of tercets,3 lines or padas.
syllabic,8-12-7 syllables,
unrhymed.

His Waiting Love(Kakuhb)

Burning moon with love disturbs her
Thrown pebbles anger the river to hide the moon
Whence do the clouds come to pour..?