Weekly Poems

How Can You Look for the Unknown? (3/17/2024) O heart, what kind of stories, what kind of adventures are you looking for? O heart, if you are looking for Me, don’t you know that I am with you? If you haven’t seen Me, how can you look for the unknown, More...

My Heart (3/10/024) My life has passed in the great sweet pain of my heart. My heart isn’t concerned about that sorrow; it simply recognizes and accepts it.   I was sitting, waiting, until I came to understand what my heart wanted. Then, I started leaping with joy.   My More...

How Could I Ever Forget? (3/3/2024) O One who reminded me last night, reminded me of that moment of exuberance, reminded me of the forgotten treasure! How could I ever forget such a blessing? Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 424. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx.pub.2024), Volume 3, More...

I am the One to be Blamed (2/25/2024) I felt the enemy’s nonsensical talk down deep in my heart. I learned what he was thinking about me.   His dog self bit my foot, hurting me. But, I could not bite him back like a dog. Instead, I just bit More...

The King is Leading You (2/18/2024) O one who searches for an escape route, do you think you control life? The King is leading you. Don’t try to make yourself more important than the King. He is the One who turns the poor one into the King of kings Rubailer More...

Beyond the Hot & Cold of this World (2/11/2024) As Hodja is my witness, I swear I will not make any vows again. The glass of the vow is broken as soon as I drink Love’s wine.   I swear to Your peerless beauty, Your wine which defeats and ruins More...

Not Out There (2/4/2024) Sometimes you get tired of living with His sorrow and so you reject life. Sometimes you tell His story with the ache in your heart. Why are you turning so dizzily around the world? The One whom you search for is not out there, but inside More...

Don’t Make Me Talk with You through that Curtain (1/28/2024) Since I am the slave of the Sun, I should talk only about the Sun. I am not the night and don’t worship the night. Why should I talk about dreams?   Since I am the envoy of the Sun, More...

On the Way to the Beloved’s Love (1/21/2024) You won’t taste ecstasy as long as you are sober. You won’t know the soul if you stay in your body. You will never reach the Truth if you are not annihilated like fire and water mixed together on the way to More...

A Heart Full of Pearls (1/14/2024) I have such an aspiration in my head. Perhaps it is not a human’s head I am in such a situation that I am not aware of myself.   The Sultan of Love offers thousands of gifts. All I want is to see His More...