Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the sky.
Dance in your Blood
Song Cycle by Parisa Sabet (b. 1980)
Publisher: Plangere Editions (external link)1.
Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207 - 1273) [text unavailable]
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Language: English
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation by Coleman Barks (1937 - 2026)
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207 - 1273) [text unavailable]
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Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]3.
Language: English
Dance, when you’re broken open [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Coleman Barks (1937 - 2026), copyright ©
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207 - 1273) [text unavailable]
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