Weekly Poems

I Am Your Remedy (5/2/2021) Endure your pain quietly. I am your remedy. Don’t look at anyone except Me, because I am your true friend. Even if I kill you, don’t say, “I have been killed.” Instead, be grateful, because I am the compensation for your life. Rubailer (2016), Rubai More...

As Long As… (4/25/2021) The parrot came to the tree to share sugar’s prayer. The rose asked the nightingale to read poetry.   Receiving a revelation, the tall green cypress said, “As long as your soul stays in your body, put a belt on your waist. Serve day and night. More...

Today, I am on the outside of a circle, as if I am standing on the outside of a door. I have become friends with the door knocker, and I am holding onto it, knocking fearlessly. Once I become a true companion of vision, I will get through that door. More...

Glory after Glory (4/11/2021) If He destroys hundreds like me, that causes no sorrow for Him. You fall in Love. He doesn’t care. Your heart is broken. He has many others.   He asks, “Why can’t your eyes see the wine?” What can they do? They are always wet in More...

I am happy, but that happiness is not from the reed-flute. I am warm, but that warmth is not from any water or fire. Love has emptied me so much of my self that when I am measured on a scale, I am two batmans* lighter than Nothing. *An historical More...

Walk Nicely Now (3/28/2021) Ascend to the sky from this banal world. Your soul will be blessed if you do. Walk nicely now.   Yes, you have jumped out from this town which is so full of sickness and shivering. Now, make your home the land of happiness and joy. More...

When I Look (3/21/2021) How long will I be satisfied by the shapes and appearances of time? How long will I watch and smell of existence? I am tired of the materials and creatures of the present. It is time to see that Beauty of Beauties. But, when I look More...

Fire (3/14/2021) The Beloved’s heart is burning for me. Its flame has turned the Earth’s harvest into ashes.   A candle put a fire in the heart of this slave, such a candle that it has made a soul of iron and stone melt like a candle.   Thousands of bright More...

Into the Sea of the Beloved (3/7/2021) Don’t think that I have run away from you or that I have given my heart to someone else. I am not tied to anyone or anything. Because I am separated from my origin, I am a stranger here. And, I am running More...

I am the Treasure (2/28/2021) I wasn’t as insane as I am now. I wasn’t out of my mind like this before.   I used to be prudent and wise once, not crazy and insane like I am now.   Before now, I used to hunt like other lovers. I More...