Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 10:58:03 -0700
Subject: Re: The Non-Bard and the Non-Song


NON-SONG
--------
I sing not a song
nor trill like the bard

what I do is distill
from the shard

fragments, images
birds, broken wings

no bard could presume
what the non-bard not sings.

	***
-Manjusree Sen


Cyberdiva wrote:
> 
> struggling to narrate a
> story
> from outside
> the
> cultural and religious faith that binds the narrative together
> 
> i realized
> 
> without my mother's voice
> and
> her bhakti
> 
> there is no folklore in my heart
> in my voice
> 
> i can
>         not
> tell those stories
> 
> to a certain extent perhaps a relief
> 
> the realization that it was not all "my choice"
> 
> to re
> ject
> to re
> member
> 
> or to continue
> 
> to go on is what i do best
> 
> and the stories must be told by those who can translate the belief
> 
> to future generations...
> 
> i am not the bard that my mother is.
> 
> I do not sing with her emotion and belief.
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> email: radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org