Weekly Poems

Death (1/25/2026) How long do you think you can escape death by watching the purple color of the Judas tree, by listening to the sound of the organ? Look and see: They’re pulling and dragging you away, Although really, we are returning to Him.   How long will you lock More...

The Scent of a Burning Heart (1/18/2026) Troubles for me are cooking in my Beloved’s kitchen of grief. Every moment hundreds of different meals of sorrow are being served to my table. The scent of a burning heart surrounds my table all the time. I wonder. Where is this scent More...

From Out of That Silence (1/11/2026) I merged so completely with Love, was so fused with Love that I became Love and Love became me. That way, I was saved from instigations, from trials and tribulations.   Yes, with complete Union, a man becomes a complete stranger to himself. There More...

Like a Candle (1/4/2026) Upon leaving Your house, I start weeping and wailing, like a candle shedding tears because of the flame. But, in order to gain something, we must learn to weep and wail like a harp. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai 1386, page More...

If They Reach You… (12/28/2025) If the rose with its beauty and the jasmine with its fine three petals see Your face, if they reach You, they all grow so big, so beautiful.   O my beautiful One, life is Your rose garden. O my Beloved, the wound You open is More...

What Should I Save It For? (12/21/2025) Since I can no longer bear the heaviness of my heart, I might as well give my heart to my longing for You. What can I do with a heart which doesn’t burn with the sorrow of Love? What is its use to More...

Look at Water and Fire (12/14/2024) Look at Love. It is joined to and merged with lovers. Look at the soul become one with the land of soil.   How long will you be seeing this and that, good and bad? Look and see that this and that are joined More...

From words to Ecstasy (`12/7/2025) The secret of Truth cannot be understood by asking questions, gathering information, or spending all your wealth and belongings. If you haven’t cried for fifty years with bloody tears, if you haven’t burned your heart out, you will not find the way from words to More...

Hundreds of Gifts (11/30/2025) O gardener, autumn has come, autumn has come. See the signs of the heart’s sorrow on the leaves and branches.   O gardener, listen carefully. Hear the cries of the trees. There are hundreds of souls, hundreds of souls wailing silently everywhere.   Eyes don’t tear More...

What You Think is Evidence (11/23/2025) The mind may give you what you think is evidence. Love gives you the Beloved, the Friend. What comes from the mind is nothing but dirty water. What comes from the Beloved is the Water of Life. You may ascend to the sky with More...