The Signs of My Beloved (10/28/18) Every particle of my body shows the signs of my Beloved. Every part of my body is the expression of Him. I lean towards Him as a lyre, my crying song created by His hand. Rubailer (2016), Page 102, Rubai #3 More...
The Pleasure of Love (10/21/18) Does the Earth’s honey taste sweet to the one who has the pleasure of Love in his heart? What can you do with the mind which falls upside-down with only one glass of wine? Sell intelligence. Buy bewilderment instead. This trading will put More...
Crying and Wailing (10/14/18) I know how easily my Beloved gets tired of me. Even the thought that I love Him seems to hurt Him a lot. But, no one can go far on the road to the Beloved with fear and shyness. If the road I take becomes difficult More...
Throw Away This Image (10/7/18) The words which come from the soul are a curtain to the soul. The fog which comes from the sea hides the coast and the pearls of that sea. It is a great task to get involved in philosophical discourses. But, the explanation is More...
Hear This If You Can (9/30/18) Hear this if you can: “One has to go beyond himself to reach Him.” When you do arrive in the world of Absence, don’t talk. Ecstasy is the language there, not words. Rubailer (2016), Page 175, Rubai #1 More...
Hundreds of Jars of Wine (9/23/18) Your Love has made me drunk. I am so drunk and out of myself that I keep clapping my hands. How could I possibly know what I am doing? I was a sour grape, but became a ripe one. How can I present More...
The Sweetness of Eternity (9/16/18) There is nothing remaining in my ears except 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 mixed all colors. Now, it can’t even remember its past. Rubailer (2016), Page 184, Rubai #4 More...
God’s Halter (9/9/18)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry
God’s Halter (9/9/18) A small fox stealthily grabbed the fat tail of a lion and ran. I wonder. Was the lion sleeping? Surely that blind, lame fox couldn’t have saved his own life if the lion had been awake! That lion knew it and knowingly gave the fox a More...
Only a Fool Says… (9/2/18) Union with God cannot be achieved until a person completely annihilates his self. Such a union is not the merging of two to make one. Union is your total annihilation. Absurdity doesn’t turn falsehood into Truth. Only a fool says, “Everything is God.” Rubailer (2016), More...
Leave Him Alone. Let Him Go. (8/26/18) I yelled, “Where is that drunk heart going?” The Sultan of sultans said, “Be silent. He is coming to our side.” I said, “You are with me. You breathe inside of me. Yet, where on the outside is my bewildered heart going?” More...