Mirabai: Friend, without that Dark raptor

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Friend, without that Dark raptor

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

Friend, without that Dark raptor
I could not survive.
Mother-in-law shrills at me,
her daughter sneers,
the prince stumbles about in a permanent fury.
Now they've bolted my door
and mounted a guard.
But who could abandon a love
developed through uncounted lifetimes?
The Dark One is Mirabai's lord,
who else could
slake her desire?

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

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Themes

Lover and Beloved

Womb

Recommended Books

	The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
	For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai, Translated by Andrew Schelling
	Holy Fire: Nine Visionary Poets and the Quest for Enlightenment, Edited by Daniel Halpern
	Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
	Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, Translated by Robert Bly

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