His Comfort. His Torture (12/4/2022) My wish is God. My disciple is God. I give my old to God. I give my new to God. I have been laid down under the feet of fate and accident. This payment has nothing to do with being clean or dirty. There More...
You are the Divine Light (11/27/2022) You are the divine light of the sky. The place where you belong is the throne. If you were to go faster on the way to God, you would rise to the sky. Aren’t you ashamed of dragging yourself like a shadow on the More...
Sometimes (11/20/2022) O heart, what did you find in all of your lootings, in those pillagings where you spread out all of your belongings? What did you find before you closed the door? In this ruined building, you still keep making webs with your own saliva in order to More...
O One who keeps me awake with Love, O One who is the light in the darkness of this life, I am a harp in Your hands. You keep plucking my strings, asking, “Why do you cry?” Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 431. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations More...
The One who sees everything as permissible is the soul who has tasted that Divine Wine. ******** The only one who tastes such Wine is the one who has long shed his own blood. He bleeds from his lungs, while that Wine rejuvenates them. The One who becomes immortal More...
Eat Less (10/30/2022)
Category: quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
If you eat less, you will become alert and bright. If you eat more, you will become foolish and lazy. Your misery comes from your gluttony. If you want respect, eat less. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 420. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub. 7/2023), Rubai 906, volume More...
The Only Way to Reach Eternity (10/23/2022)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
Every moment, Your kindness follows after sorrow. If this were not so, no one could stand this suffering. Make me constantly drunk with the wine which gives no hangover. I don’t want any other wine. We are the reed bed. He is the fire, and we are waiting More...
What harm could a cross-eyed one do to beauty such as yours? Should an insane lover be ashamed of having a bad reputation? When riding the ambling horse on the way of Love, who cares about some lame old donkey? Rubailer (2016), rubai 3, page 418. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, More...
If… (10/9/2022)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry
If you were familiar with the wisdom of the Tavern, worldly knowledge, worldly skills would mean nothing to you. If the bird of Nothingness were to cast a shadow on you, to your eye, the Semurgh* of the world would seem like a fly. If you were to More...
Be a Fool with Love (10/2/2022) It’s better to be a fool with Love than to be a wise scholar, better to become dirt on the road than to be a moon in the sky. Become one with good and bad, young and old. Be a pawn, then a vizier, More...
Such a wonderful post. Thank you!
Thanks for the comment. Hope this poem adds to your understanding of dualistic perception.