Sohbet of the Week (27 - 26)

Sufi Poems – Mirabai - 52

Mirabai (1498-1546) was an Indian mystic and poetess.

Her very personalized ecstatic songs of love, praise and lamentation have remained alive through the centuries and are still recited and sung by Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and Christians alike on the Indian subcontinent today.

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Friend, without that Dark Raptor

My 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?

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Heartily,

Puran

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