Moving Poetry at Kips Bay NYPL (3)

Moving Poetry at Kips Bay NYPL (3) 

For the third session of "Moving Poetry: Indian Dance and Poetry" at the Kips Bay New York Public Library, we explored the theme of rhythm through the poem "The Same Stream of Life" by Rabindranath Tagore. 

The Same Stream of Life 
Rabindranath Tagore
 
The same stream of life that runsthrough my veins night and day runs
through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy
through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and
breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle
of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world
of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages
dancing in my blood this moment.

Rhythms of Life (Group poem)
Sirens, traffic, traffic lights, taxis honking 
Day and night, the subway 
Pedestrians walking, bicycles 
The rhythm of nature, leaves, flowers, birds
Construction, doors opening and closing, beeping
Cellphones, conversations, and music. 

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