Kamala Das As A Poetess Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Is feministic,
Confessional
And autobiographical
Telling the story of life
Which is but of every woman
We encounter them
On the streets or meet with.

A poetess of love,
Bodily love, physical love
She is a lover of the body
Though grumbles against
The prejudice, hypocrisy, bias,
Patriarchal hegemony
And the Divine set-up of things.

A modern-day Mira or Radha,
She speaks solely about love,
Love and sex,
Satisfaction and dissatisfaction
Met in love,
The hunger of the body,
The fire of the body,
Sexual summers and siestas.

A poetess of pulls and counter-pulls
She is Lawrentine
When she talks of man-woman relationship,
Sexual pleasure and bodily thrills,
Flesh and blood contact,
love and hate theme,
Attraction and repulsion,
Give and take relationship.

A poetess of undertones and overtones,
She is bodily, physical and sexual,
Possessive and erotic,
Obscene and pornographic
When she seeks to convert into her tidbits
Into her life story of the old playhouse,
When she presents the child prostitute with a doll
Playing unawares as has not lost her childhood.

Though spiritually sick but is rebellious
And revolting against
Womanly lot and possession,
Torture and exploitation,
But who to answer,
Why is she a woman
And he a man?