101 Exiles


Like beautiful bodies of the dead, who had not grown old
and they shut them with tears, in a magnificent mausoleum,
with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet —
that is how desires look that have passed
without fulfillment;  without one of them having achieved
a night of sensual delight, or a moonlit morn.


What is 101 Exiles?

“101 Exiles” is a Ceylon Press "Poetry From The Jungle" podcast that brings together the great poems from the world’s best poets – albeit ones that just failed to make the Top 100 list.