Description
Three Songs
Based on Rumi’s poems translated into English
Soprano / Piano
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Movement I
Sit, be still, and listen,
because you’re drunk
and we’re at
the edge of the sky.
-Rumi, translated by Parisa Sabet
Movement II
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.
-Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks. Used by Permission.
Movement III
Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you’re perfectly free.
-Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks. Used by Permission
