Weekly Poems

In Love with Love (2/13/2022) I am in love with Love. Love is always with me. My body is in love with my soul. My soul is always with my body. Sometimes I hug Love with my arms. Sometimes Love hugs me. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 374. The Rubaiyat More...

Come (2/6/2022) Come. The door to exit the six dimensions is being opened. A dust has risen from the bottom of that sea.   Come. Every head, every mind has been filled with the fragrance of the union of a soul and the One who gives souls.   Come. Every ear, More...

Choose the Trouble of Love (1/30/2022) Choose the trouble of Love over all other troubles. I don’t know any better way to reach the Beloved. Don’t worry if you don’t have wealth and possessions. Worry if you don’t have troubles. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 366. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, More...

Even If You Can’t See It (1/23/2022) The one to whom the secret of Love appears loses his being, becomes annihilated in the Beloved.   Light a candle and put it in the sunshine. Look how it becomes engulfed by sunlight.   The candle’s light is there, but, at the More...

This is the Time of War (1/16/2022) Put on your arms. This is the time of war, O soul. It is getting late. Don’t hesitate. This world is nothing but a colorful show. Give it up, O soul. There is a cat and mouse fight on every corner, O soul. More...

Reach Peace (1/9/2022) It is vain for you to try to separate my Beloved from me. I have become Him. What can you do to Him? Tell me.   You cannot see even a hair between us. Nor can you see either of us being ashamed.   Even if a More...

I Lost My Self (1/2/2022) There is a place where neither I nor space exists. I ran there following my heart to find my soul. Then, I lost my self and time. Now for me, neither this nor that remains. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 359. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, More...

I saw Absence in my dream last night. I was amazed by His beauty. I became bewildered.   I was out of my self until early dawn because of the Beauty, maturity and kindness of Absence.   I compared Absence to a ruby mine. I dressed in a satin of More...

Burn That Thing (12/19/2021) O my Beloved, accept me. Take my soul. Let me pass through both worlds. If I settle down with anything other than You, throw me into the fire and burn that thing. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 353. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx. More...

No Peer (12/12/2021) Never mind all of this. How can You be with us? You are completely soul. You don’t fit in time and space.   You have gone a hundred years beyond time and space. You are in the waves of greatness.   You have cut the neck of More...