Lalleshwari Water Poems

  • 1.
    I

    By a way I came, but I went not by the way.
    While I was yet on the midst of the embankment
    ...
  • 2.
    Intense cold makes water ice.
    Then the hard ice turns to slush
    and back to water, so there are three
    forms of consciousness: the individual,
    ...
  • 3.
    Fondly will they drink water from
    The very lake
    That is too brimful to accommodate
    Even a mustard seed anymore:
    ...
  • 4.
    With a rope of loose-spun thread am I towing
    my boat upon the sea.
    Would that God heard my prayer
    and brought me safe across!
    ...
  • 5.
    Lalla, embarked on
    Going a-searching, a cotton flower:
    Thorns and carders pricked and kicked me hard;
    As the spinner spun me thin, on the spinning wheel,
    ...
  • 6.
    In the midst of the ocean
    With unspun thread.
    I am towing the boat:
    Would that God grant
    ...
  • 7.
    The arrows of my wooden bow turned out
    To be the pith of water rush grass;
    The Rajdhani of the kingdom
    Fell into the rustic hands of
    ...
Total 7 Water Poems by Lalleshwari

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Mind 21 God 12 Body 9 Death 9 Away 8 Knowledge 8 Water 7 Heart 7 Soul 7 World 7

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Saqib ali mir: Lalles was the great personality of kashmir, indian subcontinent.

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