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Jul21

The Dance of Life

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The Dance of Life

How fast this dance of life does go!

Our heart beats race against our breaths

Who set the beat, this mad tempo?

Like autumn winds we madly blow

Through time and life until our deaths.

How fast this dance of life does go!

We dream, we hope, we tell, we show!

We dance, we flail, out of our depths

Who set the beat, this mad tempo?

We waltz, at double time we go!

Stepped in as deep as did Macbeth,

How fast this dance of life does go!

Through smiles and tears we do not know

The meaning of this shibboleth 

Who set the beat, this mad tempo!

We seize the day, our hearts beat so

Much faster as we near our death

This dance of life so fast it goes

We get the beat, its mad tempo.

Feb14

Rebirth

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Shiva’s tandav nritya* the dance of destruction

He the transformer, limitless, omniscient

The holder of time the ultimate destroyer and creator

Man-woman centre of the trinity

Ever moving forward and backward

His cosmic dance

Frenetic in its final phases

We beat the drums and tablas

Dha din din tha, tha din din tha**

Urging him on to our final destruction, hoping to return

To a world reborn, renewed, refreshed

And pure as the first dew on the first day

Of the first dawn.

(*The dance of destruction
** Names of the basic tabla strokes)
May29

The Piper

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light2by Rupali Mistry
Piper, Piper, play me a song
So I can dance
And sing along

Piper, piper, I hear you now
And I’ll follow you
Beyond the clouds

Piper, piper, stop playing your pipe
For I’ll stay awhile
In this place of light