Mirabai: Dark Friend, what can I say?

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Dark Friend, what can I say?

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

Dark Friend, what can I say?
This love I bring
from distant lifetimes is ancient,
do not revile it.
Seeing your elegant body
I am ravished.
Visit our courtyard, hear the women
singing old hymns
On the square I've laid
out a welcome of teardrops,
body and mind I surrendered ages ago,
taking refuge
wherever your feet pass.
Mira flees from lifetime to lifetime,
your virgin.

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

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Themes

Lover and Beloved

Sound

Womb

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