Weekly Poems

Despite My Yelling (10/27/2024) He kept me burning despite my yelling and crying out to Him. When I kept silent, He burned me like the silent ones. He drove me beyond all boundaries, brought me back to the center, then set me on fire again. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The More...

Sometimes (10/20/2024) O Sultan of our body and soul! O One who makes us sometimes smile, sometimes grimace, O One who puts salve on the eyes of our body and soul!   O Beautiful One, the moon is embarrassed seeing Your light, Your height. Let our blood be sacrificed to More...

Neither Form Nor Direction (10/13/2024) We inherited a boat from Noah as the prize of deliverance. It sails through storms on the sea of life. Thoughts, images, sorrows and pleasures are the plants which grow from this sea. Like the heart, they have neither form nor direction. The Rubaiyat of More...

The Time of Union Has Come (10/6/2024) Assume I am a thorn, a bad one. But, the thorn and rose go together. When a jeweler weighs gold, he puts barley as a weight on the other side of the scale.   Actions go with ideas. Goods come from the Earth. More...

Break the Seal. Free Love. (9/29/2024) That divine gift, the Water of Life, is invisible, concealed in this clay body. The self has put a seal on your heart, and Love stays imprisoned there. Break the seal. Free Love. What are you afraid of? There is a secret path in More...

Maybe You Will Get to Know Us (9/22/2024) O friend, if you do good to others, you better yourself a hundred times over. Even if you turn your face this way, maybe you will get to know Us.   I spread water on the ground to settle the dust and More...

Amazing! (9/15/20240 Night has come. But, what is this amazing burning in my heart? I think it must be the dawn of a new day which the eyes of the lover cannot see. The eyes of Love do not differentiate between day and night. The eyes of Love blind the More...

How Long? (9/8/2024) For some time, I have been left on this journey with the sound of, “start the journey,” to keep me going. For some time, I have lived with the word, “go,” but I have lost the location of my tent.   When will You save me from More...

Don’t Ask for Reason (9/1/2024) At night, I turn around the city like wind. running like water. How can sleep overcome the one who walks around the city in darkness? The mind is the one who wants to have everything in order. Don’t ask for reason or manners from the More...

Inside (8/25/2024) There is a Soul inside of your soul. Search for it. There is a jewel in the mountain of your flesh. Look for the mine, the source of that jewel. O one who walks on the path to God, if that is what you are searching for, you More...