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Stray Birds 01 – 10
Stray birds of summer come to my window
to sing and fly away.
And yellow leaves of autumn,
which have no songs,
flutter and fall there with a sigh.
2
O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world,
leave your footprints in my words.
3
THE world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.
It becomes small as one song,
as one kiss of the eternal.
4
IT is the tears of the earth
that keep her smiles in bloom.
5
THE mighty desert is burning
for the love of a blade of grass
who shakes her head and laughs
and flies
away.
6
IF you shed tears when you miss the sun,
you also miss the stars.
7
THE sands in your way beg for your song
and your movement,
dancing water.
Will you carry the burden of their lameness?
8
HER wistful face haunts my dreams
like the rain at night.
9
ONCE we dreamt that we were strangers.
We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
10
SORROW is hushed into peace in my heart
like the evening among the silent trees.
Stray Birds are short poems, short aphorisms which embody Tagore’s love of nature and love of simplicity.
The power and beauty of these poems comes from their simplicity. For example the poem below is an example of how Tagore uses the splendour of the universe to inspire and soothe the human spirit.
“IF you shed tears when you miss the sun,
you also miss the stars.” (no.6)
But while Tagore is aware of human deficiencies he is also aware of the inner divinity which is innate in man.
“THE fish in the water is silent,
the animal on the earth is noisy,
the bird in the air is singing,
But Man has in him the
silence of the sea,
the noise of the earth
and the music of the air.” (no.43)