Dream Nightingale Poems

seaguls in the sea
   ~low expectatations to reach~
     easy life to live

eagles above clouds
    ~small eyes...

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she livened the world 
with her songs
one day the hippo 
heard her sing
he looked up 
and insulted her beak

she stared at her reflection 
in the...

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ALLAMA IQBAL TRANSLATIONS INTO MODERN ENGLISH



Excerpt from Rumuz-e bikhudi (“The Mysteries of Selflessness”)
by Allama Iqbal aka Muhammad Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Like a candle...

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I must be dreaming. Alas, through 
every dream, like pain through 
anesthesia, a torturous 
reality shows up.

A burning taste of jealousy. 
A blind deaf muteness...

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As the nightingale sang,
I lay in my bed
Listening to it's song 
And as I drifted of to sleep 
The music went on and on
I slowly...

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Sing Nightingale, sing
Snap me out of my dream now
Chirp to me of love
Sing your songs, sweet Nightingale
Bleed my ears red with delight



Date written and posted:...

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Nightingale, sing just for me
a swaying branch of melody;
and drop a feather
for you must
that I may pray the air a gust--
use such bright quill
across the...

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Keats’ Nightingale

The romantic poets were too early to postulate total atheism,
And so freshened up the church by aligning god with nature,
And I believe they had...

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Nondescript brown bird of renown,
nightly you serenade me.
Golden dulcet tones flood the woods
and I am wafted far away, 
off into a wondrous dream world
full of...

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Hush, the nightingale is asleep on the broken tree branch:
What can a nightingale dream on the wildness?
Maybe he dreams with a golden cage and a...

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