Prakrit
Collected by King Hala
From The Gathasaptasati
Those Women
Those women
who can see their lovers
in dreams
are lucky
but without him,
sleep won’t come
so who can dream
*****
This is my response:
This Could Not Be
Dear Women, It’s simple.
If lovers have not stirred
dreams for the sleepless,
they have not earned the right
to sleep with thee.
*****
Off to bed. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz . . .
Made me laugh out loud.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear that! Especially since I felt stressed about this prompt and felt I didn't do it justice. (But tomorrow is another opportunity for better poeming.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by! :-)