Weekly Poems

What is Inside of You (11/2/2025) Yesterday, that Beloved put a golden crown on my head. Go on. Hit me. It doesn’t matter how much you do. The drunkenness of that wine won’t leave me.   The Sultan who sews the hat of eternity wears it at night. He took More...

If Your Heart Holds Your Hand (10/26/2025) Since you haven’t taken care of your heart, it hasn’t held your hand, and you haven’t gotten a fair share of Love. You can’t love just anyone! If your heart were to hold your hand, you wouldn’t fall in the mud of lowly More...

How Long Must We Wait? (10/19/2025) O One who, without a wine cup, gives to the soul ecstasy even better than eternal drunkenness, come, if for only one moment. Give us our blessing, that moment which has been cleaned of everything, including cleanness. How long must we wait for that More...

The Most Wondrous! (10/12/1025) Know that inside of you, you resemble a cave with a strange bazaar beyond it. Everyone has a chosen work and a friend there. But, there is also the hidden Beloved who is the most wondrous! The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai More...

These are from You (10/5/2025) O Love, You have cracked me into pieces as if I am a false idol. I’ll take you to the Judge. Nobody asked me to be a witness. I am a witness of my own accord.   But, You are the One who is judged. More...

Where Did I Learn…? (9/28/2025) O sky, you ask where I learned this whirling? I learned it from the One whose face is like the Moon. I am a particle to His sun. I learned this trembling, this dancing from Him.   The river of soul flows in the canal More...

The Way to That Place (9/21/2025) I am from the Soul who is the Soul of souls. I am from the place which is of no place. The way to that place has no end. Walk there without head, without feet. He is the head, and His are the feet. More...

A Funny, Bizarre Back Road (9/14/2025) O Universal Intellect,  don’t keep creating figures. O Universal Soul, break your pen. O searching man, don’t look for footprints on the surface of the water.   O pure-hearted Lover, walk like pure, clear running water, because this still, waveless water adds Soul to More...

Different (9/7/2025) My language is different from the language of others. My place is different from heaven and hell. Hearts which are free are animated by a soul which is different from others. The pure nature of their Essence comes from a different mine. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin More...

Patience is the Key to Suffering (8/31/2025) 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 when More...