O rainy season, like sad lovers crying
because of the absence of our beloved ones,
pour your rain on our friends. Continue reading “Like Sad Lovers Crying (9/27/2026)”
Like Sad Lovers Crying (9/27/2026)
Category: Weekly Poems
Inside of You (9/20/2026)
O pure and beautiful people
who keep searching all over the world,
what are you searching for?
The Beauty you seek is inside of you.
That is the only place you will ever find that Beloved.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 4, rubai 1498, page 62.
Don’t Think It is All Just Play (9/13/2025)
A wayward, amiable friend had became insane.
His cup had fallen from the roof. His secret had became known.
Here, look: Once he was sent to the lunatic asylum. Continue reading “Don’t Think It is All Just Play (9/13/2025)”
Wake Up! ((9/6/2026)
O humans who are better than the Moon and moonlight,
you have been created from water and mud,
but you are better than that!
Why are you stuck in the mud?
O drunks of the tavern, you are submerged in a whirlpool.
Why do you sleep day and night? Wake up!
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 4, rubai 1497, page 62.
His Light Shines inside of this Storm (8/30/2026)
I told the Beloved yesterday, “O, peerless Beauty,
even the moon in the sky has become jealous of You and has folded in two.” Continue reading “His Light Shines inside of this Storm (8/30/2026)”
Are You Remembering? (8/23/2026)
O sultan, are you remembering the throne?
Are you remembering the Sultan of sultans?
O imperial tent, your flaps have been dancing.
Are you remembering that the wind
can change you from one form to another?
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 4, rubai 1494, page 60.
Grow Your Wings (8/16/2026)
His image in your heart offers endless favors,
just so you won’t look anywhere else. Continue reading “Grow Your Wings (8/16/2026)”
Don’t Leave Me (8/9/2026)
O gentle hearts who are sowing the seeds of loyalty
and scattering pearls of joy on black soil,
wherever you are, you know my situation.
Please, don’t leave me in the land of separation!
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 4, rubai 1493, page 60.
Once You Reach the Beloved (8/2/2026)
A heart-catching smell has come from the sky,
saving every tired, broken-hearted prey from the trap of the flesh. Continue reading “Once You Reach the Beloved (8/2/2026)”
Ordinary and Forgotten (7/26/2026)
My face was very pale before today.
My heart was crying, crying, crying.
I was crazy like that lover Majnun.
But, something just happened to me.
Now everything in the past
has become ordinary and forgotten.
The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 4, rubai 1491, page 59.