God Nightingale Poems

inahitaji kuimba mbele
 ya wanakwaya kila mahali
Sing brother sing
Imba kaka imba 
Imba kaka imba

Nightingale brother
His name is Elijah 
He's a nightingale 
His God is still...

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Midst inviting aurora’s awesome glow
My heart basks in radiant morning flow…  
Glorious dawn declares God’s victorious day
Such is nightingale’s tune, so sweet and gay....

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As the song goes, she sings because she's happy and because she's free.
I'm also happy and free, but I sure do wish that I could...

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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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Dour gray granite monolith,
the tower rises, stark, against the velutinous grenadine
of the dusk filled evening sky.
As the god of night draws his opaque cloak
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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Songs of the Nightingale

Joyous angelic arias,
raised in exuberant praise,
serenade and soothe restless souls;     
moving matchless melodies,
nightingale’s mellifluous songs…   ...

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Come help me Florence Nightingale
I need your healing hands
I need your guiding lamp my lady
Meet my one demand
The people, oh they told me
That I’ll never...

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