is in love.
If you cannot picture God
in a way that always
strengthens
you,
You need to read
more of my
poems
[Translated by Daniel Ladinsky]
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The colors of the Dark One have penetrated Mira’s body; all the other colors washed out.
Meditation beads and the forehead streak, those are my scarves and my rings.That’s enough feminine wiles for me. My teacher taught me this.Approve me or disapprove me: I praise the Mountain Energy night and day.I take the path that ecstatic human beings have taken for centuries.I don’t steal money, I don’t hit anyone. What will…
Thick overhead
a delight to this feverish heart.Season of rain,season of uncontrolled whispers—the Dark One’s returning!O swollen heart,O sky brimming with moisture—tongued lightning firstand then thunder,convulsive spatters of rainand then wind, chasing the summertime heat.Mira says: Dark One,I’ve waited—it’s time to take my songsinto the street.
Out in a downpour
skirt.And you have gone to a distant country.Unbearable heart,letter after letterjust asking when,my lord, whenare you coming?[Translated by Andrew Schelling]
Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening,
If we could reach the Lord through immersion in water,I would have asked to be born a fish in this life.If we could reach Him through nothing but berries and wild nuts,Then surely the saints would have been monkeys when they came from the womb!If we could reach him by munching lettuce and dry leaves,Then…
Mine Is Gopal
On his head he wears the peacock-crown: He alone is my husband.Father, mother, brother, relative: I have none to call my own.I’ve forsaken both God, and the family’s honor: what should I do?I’ve sat near the holy ones, and I’ve lost shame before the people.I’ve torn my scarf into shreds; I’m all wrapped up in…
I remember how my mother would hold me.
I understand now what was happening.Love so strong a forceit broke thecage,and she disappeared from everythingfor a blessedmoment.All actions have evolvedFrom the taste of flight;the hope of freedommoves our cellsand limbs.Unable to live on the earth,Mira ventured out alone in the sky –I write of that journeyof becoming asfree asGod.Don’t forget love;it will bring all…