Ferry Boat

Ferry Boat ¹

BY KAVIKONDALA VENKATA RAO B.A., B.L.

Bring me to this side

The ferry boat from that side.

In the field, my husband

Will be thinking of me.

It is already noon:

The Sun is just overhead.

I bring my husband hot rice and curry.

He gets angry with me

Sitting in the threshing floor.

He waits for me under the short mango-tree.

There are passengers for thee always

Who go this way and that way every day.

I am of the village,

And only for today, O Lord!

Bring me to this side

The ferry boat from that side.

Translated by the Poet from his own TELUGU song.

^{1 Originally published in Poetry and the Play Edited by Mr. S. F. Wright.}