Weekly Poems

Do You Want to Know…(12/6/2020) Do you want to know about separation? That is the road for lovers. A fish’s life depends on the sea. He desires the sea whenever he is separated from it. People usually desire the sun, although sometimes they do desire a shadow. A soul is More...

Come Closer So I Can Show It To You (11/29/2020) Your soul is so close to my soul that I know whatever you think.   I have even better proof than this. Come closer so I can show it to you.   Come to the front of poverty. Don’t cheat. More...

The Real Treasure (11/22/2020) Absence is Essence. Everything else is an attribute. Absence is health. Everything else is an illness. This world is a big headache, a grand illusion. Absence is the real treasure. To reach it is the purpose of this world. Rubailer (2016), Rubai#1, page 277. More...

Heart (11/15/2020) What kind of work bench do You have in that heart? What idols are You carving in that heart?   Spring has come. It is seed time. Who knows what You are sowing in that heart?   Outside, You are covered with curtains of secrecy. But, You are wide More...

By the Pitcher (11/8/2020) Tonight, the cupbearer is serving wine not by the glass, but by the pitcher. He has plundered every heart and seized all faith. He has served so much wine that a flood has taken away the house of the mind. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 159. More...

Look (11/1/2020) O soul who has been caught in the hook of the body, look at the fisherman. Don’t look at the fish hook.   In the beginning, you were of that same origin. Look at that origin. Don’t look at this display.   Look at the endless rose garden. More...

Bravery (10/25/2020) One has to be singular and sincere on the way of imploring. One has to embrace troubles. It is not bravery to run towards Union. One has to be brave on the day of separation. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 363 More...

Many Think This is Easy (10/18/2020) One should not try to avoid Him for even one moment. Only ruin and wreckage come from being distance!   You say, “What could happen? I could come back.” You could, but only if your heart opens its door again.   Many think this More...

I was Amazed (10/11/2020) When I was drinking wine in Your tavern one day, I started ripping off this cloak of mine, this cloak made of clay. In Your tavern, I saw the harmony in its workings and in the workings of the Universe. There was such a balance of More...

Smile (10/4/2020) Come, O wise, intelligent man. Smile at the fool. Come, O one who knows his way. Smile at the one who is lost.   Since you have reached the Sultan who doesn’t need reason, smile at the the cause as well as the effect.   If you are More...