There is a Price to be Paid (4/20/2025) There is a place beyond faith and heresy which is not for all the ones who are just starting out young and fresh. There is a price to be paid: One has to give up one’s life and sacrifice one’s heart. The More...
This Soul Wants Privacy (4/13/2025) How long will I be suffering because of this donkey of a body? It keeps asking constantly for straw and barley. Yet in the sky, the galaxy of the Milky Way is full of nourishment. A donkey can’t have a share of that glory. More...
Wqter Became His…Home (4/6/2025) Rain poured down on a man’s head. The rain kept coming, so he took shelter in his home. A duck seeing this fluttered its wings. “Give all the rain to me,” the duck said, “to the one who was created out of water!” And, water became More...
Patience is the Key to Suffering (3/30/2025)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry, 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 End (3/23/2025)
Category: quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
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...