Krishna The Divine Dancer Poem by Michael Wooff

That Krishna had all the luck. Was it his blue throat
That made the milkmaids swoon to give themselves to him?
His prowess in subduing demons? The high note
Only he could reach on his silver flute? His slim
Build? Krishna liked best to dance in the rassalia
With the gopis ('rassalia' means 'many dances') .
Cavalier, peacock-like, a passacaglia
Captures Radha, while a minuet entrances
Rukmini and Kubja. (Sixteen thousand five score
Wives and eight constitute the contents of the god's
Harem.) Well, really! Shouldn't there have been a law
Against that kind of thing in ancient Hindu times?
(Krishna being superhuman, it makes no odds,
Does it? And he did cure a hunchback and stop crimes.)