Do you remember? Can you guess coquette <br />My tall girl, I listen with muffled ears <br />In secret shall I make you wise, turn this side <br />After revealing all why close your ears? <br /> <br />My dark eyed lass, who clapped to laugh, <br />Innocent one who hid behind the door to startle! <br />It is raining again - do you remember it all? <br />Not one or two moments - but the pleasure, the pain, the desire and the fear. <br /> <br />You half opened your eyes when I tweaked the navel <br />Saying, 'You twin-petal bud shall I blossom you?' <br />My minx, in that moment of want and satiety <br />So coy you grew, biting your lips and swaying. <br /> <br />While washing away the shame of a loving yet unyielding man, <br />Half animal-half bird doubling over at the waist <br />Like a bat beating ineffectual wing, <br />I had teased, strumming your lap, yet consoled. <br /> <br />It is raining again - do you remember it all? <br />Not one or two moments - but the pleasure, the pain, the desire and the fear. <br />The female parrot cajoled the sequestered male <br />Caught from the woods, 'won't you come in?' <br />As I turned away loosening the chains of her arms <br />She had ridiculed, 'enough of your pretence!' <br />So charming darling, the warmth of your being! <br /> <br />Come, my flower, who blossomed in my summer heat, <br />For all my ferreting beauty yet undiscovered, <br />I will preserve you in my navel. <br /> <br />The rains will return. <br />Memories too will return, <br />Pleasure and pain 'desire and fear'. <br />Not one ..nor two <br /> <br />(1956)<br /><br />U. R. Ananthamurthy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-is-raining-again/
