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Month: November 2020

Come Closer So I Can Show It To You (11/29/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 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. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Love, Self, Soul
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The Real Treasure (11/22/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 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.

Tags: Absence, Ecstasy, Essence, Magnificent Lie, Suffering
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In That Heart (11/15/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 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 open in...

Tags: Heart, Mind(Reason), Soul
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By the Pitcher (11/8/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 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.

Tags: Divine_Wine, Drunk, Mind(Reason)
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Look (11/1/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 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. (more…)

Tags: Divine_Wine, Love, Magnificent Lie, Suffering, The Journey
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