This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: free verse, mystic, philosophy, Rumi, Shahram Shiva, translation
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Speech 0
Except that it robs you of who you are,
What can you say about speech?
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Kabir, philosophy, social commentary, translation