101 Exiles

Body, remember not only how much you were loved, 
not only the beds on which you lay, 
but also those desires which for you 
plainly glowed in the eyes, 
and trembled in the voice -- and some 
chance obstacle made them futile. 
Now that all belongs to the past, 
it is almost as if you had yielded 
to those desires too -- remember, 
how they glowed, in the eyes looking at you; 
how they trembled in the voice, for you, remember, body. 


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.