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)
Category: quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry
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)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry
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...
When I Suffer (2/21/2021)
Category: quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry
When I Suffer (2/21/2021) I rejoice when I suffer. I flourish when I am ruined. I look quiet and silent like the earth, but my wailing reaches the sky like thunder. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 294. More...
I Will Rise (2/14/2021) I am not the kind of lion which fights with the enemy. I fight with my self. That’s enough for me. I have become dirt for Love’s feet, but am settled in the knowledge that I will rise from the ground like a rose, like More...
A Shining Star Has Appeared (2/7/2021) I have been dissolved in the sea of purity like salt. There is no belief, no heresy left in me. Neither certainty nor doubt remains. A shining star has appeared in my heart. Even the seven levels of sky have disappeared into that star. More...
“Yes, that is me.” (1/31/2021) It comes to me that I am out of this world today. It comes to me that today, I am hidden from my self. I grabbed the knife and cut off my existence. Now, I don’t belong to me or anyone else. I More...