FOR A ROMA GIRL

Hi ! Love to your smile.
Your round face
Moving round and round
Over the sagacious stem,
Enthralling with the soft jerks
Of belly dance
Pounds me
And I am lost.

You remind me
Of the Banjara girls
Who perform Kalbelia* dance
And break each part of the body
To synchronize a new rhythm
Into the sighing hearts.

You have not done away
With the Ghagra*
That nicely poises over
The slanting fleshscapes
Of your gorgeous frame.

Your belly
Makes it swivel
Like the hind of a golden buck
And the hearts go unreigned.

Are you aware
That I am one among few
Who admire you ?

And the rest of the eyes
Are blue,
They see flesh only,
And beyond that
A realm
Where bucks and gazelles
Are chased to death.










*Kalbelia is a traditional dance of the Banjara girls in which they mould their body quite smoothly, a difficult task to perform.
*Ghagra is a long ,loose and plated skirt kind of garment worn by women in Rajsthan.