Weekly Poems

Patience is the Key to Suffering (3/30/2025) Be lost in grief, O soul. Patience is the key to suffering. Be lost in grief so that in the end, He will show His face to you. Patience is the key to suffering.   Plunge into pain and suffering so deeply that More...

No Ending (3/23/2025) I said to the night, “If you are in love with the moon which enlightens you, why do you pass through so quickly? That is no good. It shows disloyalty, this lack of respect for the moon.” Night turned its face towards me and protested, “It is More...

Give Us Patience (3/16/2025) O brother, don’t hurt yourself. Don’t hit your head against the stones. You cannot fight with that burned, inflamed self.   If you spit at the moon, your saliva will land on your face. If you pull on His shirt, your dress will get shorter.   More...

Do You Know…? (3/9/2025) O soul, do you know who your Beloved is? O heart, do you know who your guest is? O body which is using every trick to escape, do you know who is pulling you? Look and see. He is the one who is searching for you. More...

If You Get Rid of the Snoke (3/2/2025) Every moment, this revelation come to hearts from the sky: “How long do you intend to stay on the Earth like sediment? Ascend!   Heavy souls drop to the bottom like sediment. But, once they are purified, they rise to the top. More...

I Am Afraid to Say More (2/23/2025) O Beloved, there is the one who is awake and aware of You. There is the one who falls asleep and stays sleeping in the arms of Your grace. But, in Your universe, everything and everyone, visible or not, is You. I am More...

“I Accept Your Invitation” (2/16/2024) I love You with all my heart and soul. That’s my sin. Why do You turn Your face from my pale saffron one?   Either take care of this bleeding heart or give me the patience found in the words, “God does whatever He desires.” More...

Ignorant (2/9/2025) O one who is overcome by his ignorant self and who doesn’t want to take lessons from others, all your goodness was limited by leaving a cup next to the fountain. All you wanted was for the townspeople to drink water in a toast to your health. The Rubaiyat of More...

Only for Lovers (2/2/2025) O reason, go away. There is no one reasonable here. This place is only for lovers. Even if you were to become as thin as a strand of hair, you would not fit here. Now that the dawn has come and the Sun of Love is More...

Who Cares If Death Comes? (1/26/2025) Who cares if death comes and grabs my being? I’ll welcome death. If I have hundreds of lives, I’ll give away all of them.   I’ll ascend first to the sky, then with joy, continue to the land of Nothingness. I’ll tell the Master More...