2 Mirabai Poems

Mirabai was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet. She is celebrated as a saint and the north Indian Hindu tradition. Legends around her praise her disregard for social norms and conventions. She is the subject of numerous folktales.

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O friends, (translated by Jane Hirshfield)

‘O friends,’ by Mirabai is a deeply poignant poem that wrestles exhaustingly with a yearning heartache.

This poem by the Hindu poet Mirabai is indicative of much of her poetry, or bhajans. These devotional lines of verse are dedicated to the deity Krishna, whom the poet felt a passionate kinship with. Through all the hardship she faced in life she remained exceptionally loyal to the god and wrote poems like this to assuage both her own pain and others.

O friends, I am mad

with love, and no one sees.

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A Limb Just Moved

‘A Limb Just Moved’ is a poem attributed to Mirabai, a Hindu mystic and Bahkti saint who lived in the sixteenth century and was well-known for her incredible devotion to Krishna, and to her faith.

You taught Your songs to the birds first,

why was that?

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