Kamala Das As A Poetess

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?