Mirabai: Clouds

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Clouds

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

Clouds --
I watched as they ruptured,
ash black and pallid I saw mountainous clouds
split and spew rain
for two hours.
Everywhere water, plants and rainwater,
a riot of green on the earth.
My lover's gone off
to some foreign country,
sopping wet at our doorway
I watch the clouds rupture.
Mira says, nothing can harm him.
This passion has yet
to be slaked.

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

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Themes

Water

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	Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
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