Miraji Translations Poem by Michael Burch

Miraji Translations



I'm obsessed with this thought:
does God possess mercy?
―Miraji, translation by Michael R. Burch

Come, see this dance, the immaculate dance of the devadasi!
―Miraji, translation by Michael R. Burch

Echoes of an ancient prophecy:
when my life has come and gone,
when I am dead and done,
perhaps someone
hearing again in a distant spring
will echo my songs
the world over.
―Miraji, translation by Michael R. Burch

If I understand things correctly, Miraji wrote the lines above after translating a verse by Sappho in which she said that her poems would be remembered in the future. I suspect both poets and both prophecies were correct!

Saturday, October 26, 2019
Topic(s) of this poem: translation,urdu
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