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All I Was Doing Was Breathing

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

English version by
Robert Bly

Yoga / Hindu : Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama)
16th Century

Something has reached out and taken in the beams of my eyes.
There is a longing, it is for his body, for every hair of that dark body.
All I was doing was being, and the Dancing Energy came by my house.
His face looks curiously like the moon, I saw it from the side, smiling.
My family says: "Don't ever see him again!" And they imply things in a low voice.
But my eyes have their own life; they laugh at rules, and know whose they are.
I believe I can bear on my shoulders whatever you want to say of me.
Mira says: Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live?

 

 

-- from Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, Translated by Robert Bly

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Themes

  Moon
  Mountain
 
 
 


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