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Category: Rumi Poetry

On the Journey to Love (9/27/15)

Posted on September 27, 2015November 5, 2015 by Millicent
On the Journey to Love (9/27/15)
On the Journey to Love (9/27/15)

O One who has become an admonition to my eyes!

The eyes of all the ones who came before or will come after

Have never seen a Love like this.

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Posted in Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry Tagged Annihilation, Beloved Leave a comment

Don’t Ask for Reason (9/20/15)

Posted on September 20, 2015November 5, 2015 by Millicent
Don't Ask For Reason (9/20/15)
Don’t Ask For Reason (9/20/15)

At night, I turned around the city like wind, running like water

How can sleep overcome the one who walks around the city in darkness?

The mind is the one who wants to have everything in order.

Don’t ask for reason or manners from the drunk.

Ergin, Rubailer, V.98, p. 197

 

Posted in quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry Tagged Annihilation, Drunk, Mind(Reason) Leave a comment
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