Poems about Eastern

• The Seed Market

  Can you find another market like this?
  Where,

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 30 lines
• Krishna Questions His Hair Braid Not Growing

  Mother, when will my hair-braid grow?
  milk you said will make it grow,

  by Sant Surdas 12 lines
• A Ball of Snow

  you make the fire
  and I’ll show you something wonderful:

  by Matsuo Basho 4 lines, 8 comments
• If you Want What Visible Reality

  If you want what visible reality
  can give, you're an employee.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 8 lines, 1 comment
• Birdsong

  Birdsong brings relief
  to my longing

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 6 lines, 2 comments
• Awake O! Prince Of Braj

  Awake, Krishna,
  awake the lotus-petals

  by Sant Surdas 14 lines, 6 comments
• The Self We Share

  Thirst is angry with water. Hunger bitter
  with bread.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 46 lines, 2 comments
• Seasonal Cycle - Chapter 03 - Pre Autumn

  "On the departure of rainy season bechanced is autumn with a heart-pleasingly bloomed lotus as her face, betokening the heart-pleasing face of a new bride, and

  by Kalidasa 26 lines
• Shadow and Light Source Both

  How does a part of the world leave the world?
  How does wetness leave water?

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 19 lines
• A Cow and a Goat

  There was a verdant pasture somewhere
  Whose land was the very picture of beauty

  by Muhammed Iqbal 58 lines, 6 comments
• There is a Community of Spirit

  There is a community of the spirit.
  Join it, and feel the delight

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 9 lines
• Verses on a Butterfly

  And silver lillies fill their cups with dews;
  Flora for thee the laughing fields perfumes,

  by Joseph Warton 24 lines, 1 comment
• A Cowherding girl

  The plums tasted
  sweet to the unlettered desert-tribe girl-

  by Mirabai 21 lines, 2 comments
• There is a life-force within your soul

  There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
  There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines
• Keep Up Your Promise

  Take my arm
  and keep up your promise!

  by Mirabai 13 lines
• Poem 6

  TELL me, O Swan, your ancient tale.
  From what land do you come, O Swan? to what shore will you fly?

  by Kabir 7 lines
• Poem 5

  PLAYED day and night with my comrades, and now I am greatly afraid.
  So high is my Lord's palace, my heart trembles to mount its stairs: yet I must not be shy,

  by Kabir 5 lines
• A Sake Barrel

  A sake barrel,
  Born without hands, makes merry —

  by Ihara Saikaku 4 lines, 3 comments
• Not Here

  There's courage involved if you want
  to become truth.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 12 lines, 1 comment
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1 - 250 (Whinfield Translation)

  1.
  At dawn a cry through all the tavern shrilled,

  by Omar Khayyam 1250 lines
• Sleep

  Sleep has not visited me the whole night,
  Will the dawn ever come?

  by Mirabai 13 lines
• Dialogue Souldn't Cease (With English Translation)

  Some vow of loyalty, fully moulded, will arrive by the morn;
  the love will arrive, albeit limping, yet it certainly will;

  by Ali Sardar Jafri 55 lines
• If You Show Patience

  If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
  If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines, 1 comment
• The First Meeting Of Radha And Krishna

  Krishna went playing in the lanes of Braj,
  a yellow silk garment round his waist,

  by Sant Surdas 18 lines
• How Long

  How long will you think about this painful life?
  How long will you think about this harmful world?

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 5 lines
• Late, by Myself

  Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
  no light and no land anywhere,

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 6 lines, 1 comment
• My body, in its withering

  My body, in its withering, may become a lovely swallow.
  Under the eaves of my loved one's home I'll build my nest of twigs.

  by Anonymous Asian 3 lines, 7 comments
• The Cloud Messenger - Part 02

  Your naturally beautiful reflection will gain entry into the clear waters of the
  Gambhira River, as into a clear mind. Therefore it is not fitting that you, ou

  by Kalidasa 111 lines
• Krishna Crawling

  Chuckling, Kanha came crawling,
  Trying to catch His reflection

  by Sant Surdas 11 lines
• You Personify God's Message

  You personify God's message.
  You reflect the King's face.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines

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