Weekly Poems

I am Happy on this Journey (1/27/19) I have gone, so one less headache in this world. I am free from suspense. I have saved my soul.   I said goodbye to the ones I hang out with. Then, I carried my soul to the land where a trace never More...

Your Sun (1/20/19) My God, the thing this poor soul wants from You is something for which not even sultans would dare ask. Every particle is happy in the sunshine, but every one of them is still distant from Your sun. And, this penniless beggar wants to have Your sun. More...

Don’t Even Think of “Two” (1/13/19) I am such a lover that I have given up the road and everything that exists on the road, because the only companion of the lover is that exalted one person who has no beginning of the beginning.   The one whose friend is More...

Then, the Only Beauty…Will Be Yours As long as a beauty appears in a shape, a form, there will always be another beauty with a better shape, a better form. This shaped beauty cannot be my Beloved. Get rid of forms from your heart. Then, the only Beauty which has More...

Come to the Source of Your Source (12/30/18) How long will you be going backwards? Come forward. Don’t stay with heresy. It is time to come to faith.   See poison as sherbet. Grab the poison. At last, come to the Source of your source. ******** You are on the Earth More...

Majesty, Majesty, Majesty (12/23/18) Love is completion, completion, completion. The self is imagination, imagination, imagination. This divine light is majesty, majesty, majesty. Today is the Day of Union, Union, Union! Rubailer (2016), Page 287, Rubai #4 More...

If This Were Not So (12/16/18) Every moment,  the Beloved’s kindness follows after sorrow. If this were not so, no one could stand this suffering.   Make us constantly drunk with the wine which gives no hangover. We don’t want any other wine.   We are the reed bed. He More...

For Whom Are You Searching? (12/9/18) Sometimes you get tired of living with His sorrow and reject life. Sometimes you tell His story with the troubles in your heart. Why are you dizzily turning around the world? He is not outside of you. For whom are you searching? Rubailer (2016), More...

What’s the Use of That? (12/2/18) O player, play this music. Play this tune. Alas for the ones who block the road! Mercy especially for the one who waylays us on our road!   O player, you learned that other music from that other brigand, because the student has the More...

Love’s Murmur (11/25/18) There is nothing remaining in my ears but Love’s murmur. There is nothing remaining in my soul –no reason, no thought– only the sweetness of Eternity. The colorless brush of Love has blended all colors. Still, the state of no-color remains. Rubailer (2016), Page 184, Rubai #4 More...