Fifteen rupee rose
for a girl's bewitching smile.
Not a bad bargain.
Published in Writing Love an Anthology of Indian - English Poetry, ed. Ashmi Ahluwalia; Rupa Publications 2010. ISBN 978-81-29116-66-6.
OR
Fifteen rupee rose.
She gets a half-hour's pleasure.
I get a poem.
for a girl's bewitching smile.
Not a bad bargain.
Published in Writing Love an Anthology of Indian - English Poetry, ed. Ashmi Ahluwalia; Rupa Publications 2010. ISBN 978-81-29116-66-6.
OR
Fifteen rupee rose.
She gets a half-hour's pleasure.
I get a poem.
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