Dance Urdu Poems

A seven day event 
Based on African descent 
Culminating in giving gifts and a large feast
Based on African festivals ranging from the West to the...

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The Seashore Gathering
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge.
The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters...

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Miraji translations into modern English



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...

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Taught Iago to trance,
the pungent smell made me balance the stance,

raided the 'pulse' and sought no other deviant,

I was looted in the same way I...

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I tread lightly on this gravelled road 
And on the horizon I see 
Lights, skylines to die for 
Tantalized by beauty false
For distance rests between...

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Silent Lies 

Silent lies
Silent tries
Silent deceptions upon the meek
Blaming Yahudi or any others of different speak
Whoever doesn’t subscribe to propaganda’s blubber

The gardens of Babylon had...

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The Owl and the Crow


The hunter captured the owl
He brought her home to his castle
Inside a cell she was put
Away from the rain

The owl, never...

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In between the smooth black stones
and the long verdant grasses
I play
as I dance ever so lightly amongst
the wooded green
and
as I glaze upwards to the endless...

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