How can my love hold him when the other
Flaunts a gaudy lust and is lioness
To his beast? Men are worthless, to trap them
Use the cheapest bait of all, but never
Love, which in a woman must mean tears
And a silence in the blood.

(C) Kamala Das
02/07/2019


Best Poems of Kamala Das

• Forest Fire
• The Sunshine Cat
• The Old Playhouse
• Punishment In Kindergarten
• The Rain
• The Suicide
• In Love
• A Losing Battle
• An Introduction
• The Looking Glass
• Annette
• Words
• Winter
• The Testing Of The Sirens
• Relationship
• Krishna
• Summer In Calcutta
• The Maggots
• The Stone Age
• The Dance Of The Eunuchs