Weekly Poems

You Will Never… (2/11/18) You will never taste ecstasy as long as you are sober. You will never know the soul if you stay attached to your body. You will never reach the Truth unless you are annihilated like fire and water thrown together on the way to the Beloved’s More...

Such a Sun (2/4/18) O Charmer who constantly brings forth the Water of Life, where is the source of the water You bring? Really, this time You have brought the One who adds Soul to soul.     You have brought such a sun from God’s light that it covers More...

Don’t Worry (1/28/18) Once you become the friend of one whose heart is in God, don’t pay attention to other people and their customs. Your soul will fall in Love’s fire like your fate. Don’t worry. Don’t run away. Know this well:  From now on, you won’t fit in anywhere. More...

O Ecstasy! (1/21/18) I wish the bird of soul would fly only in the sky of Ecstasy, because the soul’s candle doesn’t shine in any palace except that one.   Although Ecstasy’s bird of fortune casts his shadow over everything and everyone, the Sun of God’s favor shines bright on More...

It Will Stay With You (1/14/18) The branch that is full of flowers today will grow lots of fruit tomorrow. The falcon of desire will go on the hunt one day. The image of the Beloved comes and goes now, but the time will come when it stays with you. More...

Hear This Well (1/7/18) If you are in love with Me, I will make you utterly confused. Hear this well. Don’t do too much, because in the end, I will destroy you. Hear this well.   If you work like an ant or a bee to build a hundred houses, More...

That Makes the Garden Smile (1/31/17) We are in a season that is as auspicious as the Beloved’s Union. The candle of the soul wakes up when the body dies. When lightning strikes, the clouds start crying. That makes the garden smile. Rubailer, Page 389, Rubai #4 More...

From the Coast of the Sea of Soul (12/24/17) O lovers, may all your drinks do you good. May this world become for you a sugar mine.   O lovers, the sounds of the best wishes have ascended to the Throne. This caravan has gone beyond the Earth and heaven. More...

The Joy Among Joys (12/17/17) O head, you are the reason among reasons. O flesh, you are the stranger among strangers. O heart, you are the desire among desires. O soul, you are the joy among joys. Rubailer, Page 417, Rubai #3 More...

The Difference Becomes Becomes Obvious (12/12/17) The best journey for me is the journey from existence to Absence. Existence is the curtain that hides the land of Absence.   Existence is like water. Absence is the sweet sea. When clean, pure water stays in ponds, it turns into a swamp, More...