Now I’m about to take my leave, so wish me luck, my friends! The dawn has turned the sky to rose, and stretching out before me wends my path in beauty. Don’t ask what I’ll take along to help me reach my destination; I am setting out with nothing in my hand and heart but expectation. Not for me the russet drab of travellers; around my neck I’ll wear my wedding garland, and whatever dangers lurk along my way I’ll feel no fear. And at my journey’s end the evening star will rise, and from the gateway of the King the plaintive melodies of dusk will fill the darkening skies.

Rabindranath Tagore - "Gitanjali" 94

I reversioned this from Tagore's own translation .

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Beautiful your bracelet gold with coloured stars of artfully set jewels. But how much more I marvel at your scimitar an arc of lightning like the span of the Garuda bird its wings outstretched against the blood-red setting sun. It trembles like the moment before death when life responds to pain’s awakening it shimmers like the pure flame of being that incinerates the sense of self in just one coruscating instant Beautiful your bracelet set with starry jewels, but how much more I marvel, god of thunder, at the dreadful unintelligible beauty of your scimitar.

Rabindranath Tagore - "Gitanjali" 53

I reversioned this from Tagore's own translation .

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False as Dice (after sonnet 138) She takes my hand, she meets my eye, she says that she would never lie — and I believe her though I know she’s blind to truth. I build my castles on her sand, pretend to think that they will stand forever, hoping she will see naivety as youth. Oh, I am old and she’s untrue; we know it, yet we carry through this grand pretence, divinest show, as love demands. We tread the measures of the dance, for nothing threatens true romance as much as age and disbelief, we understand. And so we’re lying each to each, we lie together on a beach of shifting silicon and shell, and make a heaven of a hell.

"False as Dice".

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I am filled with myriad desires I whine and beg for their fulfilment but you save me from myself with stern refusals, and my life is moulded by your mercy. You are slowly leading me to merit your unasked-for gifts – sky, light, body, life, and mind – and from the dangers of too much desire you rescue me. I am inclined to laziness, procrastination; sometimes, though, I leap up from my bed to follow you, but you are cruel and hide from me. You are slowly leading me to merit union with you by constantly refusing me, and from the dangers of half-willed desire you rescue me.

Rabindranath Tagore - "Gitanjali" 14

I reversioned this from Tagore's own translation .

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I read a lot of translations, and as many alternative translations as I can.

Lorna Goodison has reversioned Dante's Inferno and set it in Jamaica.

Can hardly wait to read this.

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Rabindranath Tagore - "The Gardener" 84.

(reversioned by me from Tagore's translation)

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Rabindranath Tagore - "Gitanjali" 44

I reversioned this from Tagore's own translation .

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Rabindranath Tagore - "Gitanjali" 7

I reversioned this from Tagore's own translation .

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Rabindranath Tagore - "Fruit-Gathering" LXXI

reversioned by me from Tagore's own translation

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Rabindranath Tagore - "Gitanjali" 100

I reversioned this from Tagore's own translation .

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A reversioned poem from Rabindranath Tagore's "Gitanjali".

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Following in the footsteps of some of my friends, I sought out to cover the #Reversioning by creating "Revisiting Power Rangers" - a guide to the various visual changes made to #MMPR by the Disney crew.