Why Mira Can't Come Back To Her Old House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCBDBBB E| The colors of the Dark One have penetrated Mira's body all the other colors washed out | A |
| Making love with the Dark One and eating little those are my pearls and my carnelians | B |
| Meditation beads and the forehead streak those are my scarves and my rings | B |
| That's enough feminine wiles for me My teacher taught me this | B |
| Approve me or disapprove me I praise the Mountain Energy night and day | C |
| I take the path that ecstatic human beings have taken for centuries | B |
| I don't steal money I don't hit anyone What will you charge me with | D |
| I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders | B |
| and now you want me to climb on a jackass | B |
| Try to be serious | B |
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| Translated by Robert Bly | E |
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