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Out in a downpour

Mirabai, Mirabai poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Mirabai
(1498 - 1565?) Timeline

English version by
Andrew Schelling
Yoga / Hindu : Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama)
16th Century

Out in a downpour
in a sopping wet
skirt.
And you have gone to a distant country.
Unbearable heart,
letter after letter
just asking when,
my lord, when
     are you coming?

 

 

-- from For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai, Translated by Andrew Schelling

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Themes

  Heart
 
 
 
 


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The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai, Translated by Andrew Schelling
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Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, Translated by Robert Bly

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