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Tag: Absence

The Price (3/12/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry, UncategorizedPosted March 12, 2017

There is a place beyond faith and heresy that is not for all the young and pretty ones who want to get there. As the price, one has to give up their life and sacrifice their heart. Rubailer, Page 65, Rubai #3

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Existence, Heart
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Why Does Your Soul Keep Growing? (2/5/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted February 5, 2017

Is there a lip from which the smell of Soul doesn't come? Is there a heart in which He doesn't have a trace?   If there are no provisions coming from that famous table, why is every particle chewing cud like a camel? (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Existence, Heart, Silence, Soul
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A Curtain to the Soul (1/8/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 8, 2017

The words which come from Soul are a curtain to the soul. The fog which comes from the sea hides the coast and the sea's pearls. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Existence, God, Knowledge, Truth
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Yes (12/25/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 25, 2016

Yes, that door will be opened in the end. Yes, in the end, that silver-bodied charmer will appear, show his face. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beloved, Divine_Wine, Love's Sugar, Patience, Union
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We Are Due to Try Absence (11/27/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 27, 2016

Fire leaned toward the ear of smoke and said secretly, "He can't do without me. Aloe wood really likes me. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Existence
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If… (11/20/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 20, 2016

If you start the journey, they will open the road for you. If you annihilate yourself, they will carry you to Absence. If you humble yourself, they will grow you greater than the Universe. If you become nothing, they will show you without you. Rubailer, Page 205, Rubai #2

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Nothingness, Self, The Journey
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No Belief, No Heresy Remains (10/23/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted October 23, 2016

I have been dissolved like salt in the sea of purity. Neither faith nor doubt remains in me. No belief, no heresy remains. A shining star has appeared in my heart, and the seven layers of the sky have disappeared into that star. Rubailer, Page 265, Rubai #1  

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Nothingness
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Absence Is the Real Treasure (10/9/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted October 9, 2016

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. Rubailer, Page 257, Rubai #1

Tags: Absence, Existence
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“And We Will Go That Way” (10/2/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted October 2, 2016

Rise, O lovers.  Let us all ascend to the sky. We have seen this earth.  Let us see the other one.   No, no.  Both gardens are beautiful and nice. Let us give up both of them and go to the Gardener.   (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Humanity, Nothingness, Soul, The Journey
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Exaltation and Instigation (7/24/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted July 24, 2016

I catch Your fragrance from the tall symmetry of the cypress. I almost see the color of Your face in the moon.   Every sugarcane comes to Your temple to wear the belt of service. Every bit of sugar comes to be a servant in Your halva. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Beloved, Divine_Wine, Drunk, Love
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How Are You? (5/29/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 29, 2016

How are you?  How do you do? "How" and "what" won't help anyone understand you. Except for the Sultan who is beyond "how" and "what," Nobody will understand you. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Existence, Heart, Soul
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Hundreds of Lights from God’s Purse (5/1/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 1, 2016

O my soul, behind the curtain of the soul, there is a secret world, a secret drinking. Behind the curtain of Absence, there are hundreds of Josephs of Canaan. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Death, Love's Sugar, Suffering, The Journey
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I Am Out of My Self (1/24/16)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 24, 2016

I want to boil the kettle of the soul, spread bloody foam. I want to say the words of the two universes in one breath, in one effort. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Drunk, Love, Suffering
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A Means to Reach Absence (1/3/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted January 3, 2016

Fate is not the slave of our heart's desire; Existence is a means to reach Absence. Our nanny is behind the curtain. In fact, we are not here; those are our shadows. Ergin, Rubailar, Verse #4, Page 109  

Tags: Absence, Existence, Heart
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Someone Is Hidden Here (12/13/15)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 13, 2015

Someone is hidden here, holding my skirt. He bends backward and grabs my hair, keeps pulling me.   (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Beloved, Divine_Wine, Drunk, Soul, Suffering
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Beyond Existence and Absence (11/22/15)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted November 22, 2015

Wines have been offered from the Sun of happiness to me. The cells of my body have become a knob on the door of the tavern. Come, watch the face of our Sun; that face is the Garden of Eden. Stay in the shade of His hair which is divided...

Tags: Absence, Heart
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