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Dance, Lalla, with nothing on

Lalla, Lalla poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Shaivite (Shiva) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Lalla
(14th Century) Timeline

English version by
Coleman Barks

Original Language
Kashmiri
Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)
14th Century

Dance, Lalla, with nothing on
but air: Sing, Lalla,
wearing the sky.

Look at this glowing day! What clothes
could be so beautiful, or
more sacred?

 

 

-- from Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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/ Photo by Dmitry Kichenko /

Themes

  Sky
 
 
 
 


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