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Tag: Absence

Scared (1/17/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 17, 2021

I have traveled from town to town, but I haven't seen any city like the city of Love.   At the beginning, I didn't appreciate the value of that city, and because of my ignorance, I suffered much in exile. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Existence, Love, Soul, Suffering, The Journey
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That World (12/20/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted December 20, 2020

The shouts of the drunk are coming from the heavens. That drunk is coming with yells and cries and screams. The soul and the world have become exuberant thanks to all such clamor. They both are coming from that World. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 171.

Tags: Absence, Drunk, Ecstasy
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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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No Signs, No Tricks, No Traces (9/27/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted September 27, 2020

The mind may give you what you think is evidence. Love gives you the Beloved, the Friend. What comes from the mind is dirty water. What comes from the Beloved is the Water of Life. You may ascend to the sky with all the signs of a lover's journey, all the...

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Essence, Mind(Reason), Truth
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Today is a Day of Joy (8/23/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 23, 2020

Come. Today is a day of celebration for us. From now on, joy and pleasure will keep growing. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Divine_Wine, Drunk, God, Soul's Sugar
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Where is His Roof? (8/9/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 9, 2020

Come, O One who gives new life to the world. Stop the workings of this smart mind. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Existence, Mind(Reason), Nondualistic Perception, Soul
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A One-Year Old Love (8/2/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted August 2, 2020

An eye which gazes upon that rose, that tulip fills the whirling sky with wails and cries. The intoxication you get from a one-year-old Love you could never get from a thousand-years-old wine. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 186.

Tags: Absence, Divine_Wine, Ecstasy, Existence
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This Fire (7/12/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted July 12, 2020

If you want to enlighten the universe, if you want to increase the light of this world, all your body must turn into fire like the sun. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beauty, Love's Fire, Servant
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Songs and Screams (6/28/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted June 28, 2020

Every night, the specter of my Beauty praises the attributes of my Essence and talks about the Absence of my Essence which proves my Existence.   The Sultan of chess of the seven stars sends a sign from His ayn*-like eye and cim-like ear which checkmates me.   If I...

Tags: Absence, Ecstasy, Existence, Silence, Suffering, The Journey
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Flutter Your Own Wings (4/12/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted June 12, 2020

O heart, you go nowhere on this road with talk and gossip. You cannot reach the Beloved unless you pass through the door of Absence. You have to flutter your own wings where His birds fly, O heart. They don't give out wings, O heart. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #2, page...

Tags: Absence, Gossip, Heart
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Being in God’s Vicinity (5/24/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted May 24, 2020

This solitude is better than the company of thousands. This freedom is sweeter than owning the whole world. Being in God's vicinity for even a short time is worth more than the soul, more than the universe, more than all of this, more than all of that. Rubailer (2016), Rubai...

Tags: Absence, Divine_Wine, God
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Your Scent (5/10/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted May 10, 2020

Once I got a tiny whiff of Your scent, I was forced to go Your way. My color and scent were stolen by Yours. I was annihilated in the end, so nothing was left of me, not even a scent. No scent. Nothing. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #3, page 175.

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beloved, Nondualistic Perception, Nothingness
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Who Is It? (5/3/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 3, 2020

Who is it that gives taste and charm to color and shape? When He hides, form becomes like a child of the devil. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Body, Mind(Reason), Self, Soul
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Existence is a Means to Reach Absence (3/15/2020)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted March 15, 2020

Fate is not a slave to our opinions, our thinking, our petty desires. Existence is a means to reach Absence. Our nanny is behind the curtain. In fact, we are not here. What you see is merely our shadow. Rubailer (2016), Page 130, Rubai #3.

Tags: Absence, Existence, Fate
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A Sign Has Appeared from Love (3/8/2020)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted March 8, 2020

Just now, ruby-colored tears have started seeping from my eyes. A sign has appeared from Love, yet a trace of Love's dust never appears. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Essence, Heart, Lover, Silence, Soul, Veil
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No Place for Water and Earth (12/29/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 29, 2019

Look at these fragments of soul which have been chipped off, sparkling in this valley. Watch this sea. Watch these ships as they collide with each other. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Existence, Heart, Honesty, Soul, Suffering
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Both Worlds Are Submerged in Him (11/24/19)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 24, 2019

If you want the Beloved to show His face to you, turn inside. Give up your flesh and walk to the Essence. He is such an Essence that He is surrounded by layers of curtains. He is submerged in His own Being, and both worlds are submerged in Him. Rubailer...

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beloved, Essence, Existence, Heart
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I Am Right Here (11/17/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 17, 2019

"I don't have anything to do with this." That's what you said, looking quite sour. Words like "vinegar is a nice condiment" were written all over your face. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Drunk, Existence, God, Heart, Soul, The Journey
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Who Has Seen… (11/3/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 3, 2019

Who has seen a trace of that charmer? In whose house is that full moon hidden?   Who has seen without eyes His Beauty? Who has seen that world beyond this one? (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Existence, Soul
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He Tells What He Sees (10/27/19)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted October 27, 2019

O mortal, this is the Master of all the East. This is the lightning from the cloud which scatters pearls. Whatever you say is based on reasoning alone, whereas He tells what he sees, and that is the difference. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #4, page 70.

Tags: Absence, Mind(Reason)
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“Why Don’t You Come, Too?” (9/8/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted September 8, 2019

"O heart," I said, "why are you like this? How long will you be hanging around Love?   My heart answered, "Why don't you come, too? Wouldn't it be nice if you came and tasted the pleasure of Love? (more…)

Tags: Absence, Appearance, Divine_Wine, Heart, Love, Love's Fire, Mirror
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My Religion (8/11/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 11, 2019

Absence in Nothingness is my religion. Annihilation from existence is what I worship.   I run towards the side of the Beloved with my feet, but the green horse of the firmament is under my saddle.   In one breath, I leave hundreds of planets behind me. Then, I turn...

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beloved, Religion
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I am Absent (8/4/19)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted August 4, 2019

He is inside and outside of my heart. He is the soul of my body. He is my blood and my veins. How could faith or heresy fit here? I am absent. He is all of my existence. Rubailer (2016), page 68, Rubai #4

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Body, Existence, Heart, Love, Soul
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You Are the Antidote…You Are the Bait (7/28/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted July 28, 2019

What is life without You? Life without You is forbidden.   Living without Your beautiful face is nothing but death, that thing which was given the name, "life." (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Existence, Love, Patience, Separation
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I Did Not Recognize Who I was (7/21/19)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted July 21, 2019

At first, like others, I preferred being my self. Although I was aware of my existence, I did not comprehend my being. Because I could not see, I did not recognize who I was. I was merely hearing my name. Finally, and only when I went out of myself completely, I...

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Essence, Self
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Stay for Awhile (7/14/19)

By MillicentIn Rumi PoetryPosted July 14, 2019

A sugar buyer comes, saying, "A caravan has arrived from Egypt."   Hundreds of camels come loaded with sugar cane. O my God, what a beautiful gift. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Ecstasy, Love, The Sea
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I Have No Constancy, No Peace (6/30/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted June 30, 2019

He said, "I am the fire which burns you." I answered, "Yes, but Your Love and Your sun are in my heart.   "If I smell one rose without Your Love, burn me right away like a thorn." (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Love, Suffering, The Journey
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Please, Do Me a Favor! (6/23/19)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted June 23, 2019

I was heart and soul without a body before... pure, clean, pleasant. You built my body as a guest house and put my soul in it. O my Master, please, do me a favor! Pardon me. Recreate me as You did before. Bring me back to life. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #2, Page...

Tags: Absence, Death, Existence, Heart, Life, Soul
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Anger (6/16/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted June 16, 2019

If you keep getting angry on your journey, your exuberance will soon fade away. You will turn into cold ice. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Existence, Separation
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Don’t Talk So Much (6/2/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted June 2, 2019

O one who holds the halter of time, O one who opens the door of the paradise of meanings!   Your divinity is what makes everything appear and scatter. Your world of appearances is the ladder of wishes. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Existence, Longing, Suffering
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