Lalla: Just for a moment, flowers appear

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Just for a moment, flowers appear

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by Lalla
(14th Century) Timeline

English version by
Coleman Barks

Original Language
Kashmiri

Yoga / Hindu : Shaivite (Shiva)

14th Century

Just for a moment, flowers appear
on the empty, nearly-spring tree.

Just for a second, wind
through the wild thicket thorns.

Self inside self, You are nothing but me.
Self inside self, I am only You.

What we are together
will never die.

The why and how of this?
What does it matter?

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

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Themes

Bower

Death

Garden

Lotus

Rose

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