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Tag: Death

Where Are You? (2/20/2022)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted February 20, 2022

Where are you, O God's martyrs, O ones who looked for trouble in the Karbala* desert?   Where are you, O impatient lovers, O ones who fly faster than the birds in the sky? (more…)

Tags: Death, Essence, Existence, Mind(Reason), The Journey, The Sea
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This Heart (9/26/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted September 26, 2021

O One who takes the hearts of lovers as hostage, don't shed the blood of lovers.Go away.   Look at the traces of blood on every road. Hear the bloody yells everywhere. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Cycles, Death, Heart, Resurrection, Soul
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About Death (9/19/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted September 19, 2021

Your soul is a guest of your body for only a couple of days. Yet, you have become so attached to this Earth that you don’t want to listen when I talk about death. Your soul is longing for that mansion – that “death before death.”* Unfortunately, your body’s donkey...

Tags: Annihilation, Death, Self, Soul
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Empty Words (5/16/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted May 16, 2021

On the way to Love, each lover must either annihilate himself or give up his life in death. Some say, “Love’s goal is to drink water from the Fountain of Life.” These are just empty words, O lover, just empty words. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #3, page 226. A Rubaiyat of...

Tags: Annihilation, Death, Existence, Love, Nondualistic Perception
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Lighter Than Nothing (4/4/2021)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted April 4, 2021

I am happy, but that happiness is not from the reed-flute. I am warm, but that warmth is not from any water or fire. Love has emptied me so much of my self that when I am measured on a scale, I am two batmans* lighter than Nothing. *An historical...

Tags: Death, Essence, Nondualistic Perception, Nothingness
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Walk Nicely Now (3/28/2021)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted March 28, 2021

Ascend to the sky from this banal world. Your soul will be blessed if you do. Walk nicely now.   Yes, you have jumped out from this town which is so full of sickness and shivering. Now, make your home the land of happiness and joy.   If the painting...

Tags: Death, Self, Soul, Suffering
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The Situation (12/15/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted December 15, 2019

I tried to describe the situation of my heart as I knew it. The tears and blood of my heart had become rough, but I couldn't explain it. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Death, Dualistic Perception, Heart, Nondualistic Perception, Rebirth, The Journey
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Death is Reaching Out to God (12/8/19)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted December 8, 2019

There is a new life in death for the man of faith and justice. From death, peace and calm come to clean souls. Death is reaching out to God, not out to fear and cruelty. The one who refuses to die with that death will die every day. That is...

Tags: Annihilation, Death, God
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Look at Souls (10/6/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted October 6, 2019

Clean souls ascend to the sky. Turbid souls descend to the valley, are buried in the ground.   Open the eye of your soul and look at souls. How did they get here? What happens to them? Where and how do they go? (more…)

Tags: Death, Existence, Soul, Suffering, The Journey
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Death’s Majesty (8/25/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 25, 2019

Love passes with the hope of tomorrow, finishes needlessly with fights and struggles.   Assume your life is the day which you are living right now. See how you spend it with all of your schemes and empty projects. (more…)

Tags: Death, Fasting, Heart, Soul
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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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From the End to the Beginning (2/24/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted February 24, 2019

We are brave, insolent revolutionaries who play with our own lives.   It is a pity that this muddy flesh is the peer of our pure, clean soul. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Annihilation, Death, Existence, Heart, Love, The Journey
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Our Voices and Screams (2/10/19)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted February 10, 2019

We have gone. Best wishes to the rest. Those born here on this planet always die here.   The One who lives above knows that falling rock will surely hit the ground. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Death, Existence, Suffering
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Just Empty Words (11/11/18)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted November 11, 2018

On the way to Love, each lover must either annihilate himself or give up his life in death. Some say, “Love’s goal is to drink water from the Fountain of Life.” These are just empty words, O lover, just empty words. Rubailer (2016), Page 226, Rubai #3

Tags: Annihilation, Death, Life, Nothingness
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Hear This Well (1/7/18)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted January 7, 2018

If you are in love with Me, I will make you utterly confused. Hear this well. Don't do too much, because in the end, I will destroy you. Hear this well. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Death, Drunk, Ecstasy, Patience, Suffering, The Journey
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Bees Don’t Make His Honey (10/15/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted October 15, 2017

Before wine, the vineyard or the grape ever existed in this world, our soul was drunk with everlasting wine, with God’s wine.   Before this hide and seek, before Mansur* said that secret word, made that subtle point, we kept saying, “I am God,” in the Baghdad of this world. (more…)

Tags: Absence, Death, Divine_Wine, Soul
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Your Qibla (9/24/17)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted September 24, 2017

Even if sugar envies your sweet smile, Even if sultans are your slaves and servants, if you make this rotten world your Qibla,* you are dead, and people are licking your corpse. *Qibla Direction of prayer. Rubailer, Page 371, Rubai #4

Tags: Death, Existence, Prayer
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The Situation Is Not Like That (8/20/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted August 20, 2017

Between the darkness of sleep and the light of awakening, in the dark of evening, I saw such a person!   He was a traveler with such a beautiful face, on his journey to the Holy Temple. He was pure wisdom, the light of awareness. (more…)

Tags: Beloved, Death, Divine_Wine, Existence, Humanity, Suffering
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Turn (5/14/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted May 14, 2017

I really keep turning around bad luck, keep borrowing trouble when I turn around myself, my illusions instead of You. (more…)

Tags: Death, God, Humanity, Mirror, Union
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“God Knows Best” (3/5/17)

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

I became the confidant of the One who set out to search. I became a friend of the One who settled down in the land of Glory.   I saw a dome beyond the six dimensions. I turned into the floor, the dirt of that dome. (more…)

Tags: Annihilation, Death, God, Love, Nothingness, Secret
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The Light of the Soul’s Mirror (2/19/17)

By MillicentIn Gazel (longer poem), Rumi PoetryPosted February 19, 2017

Look. Look at Me carefully. Know that I am a friend to you in your grave. When you are away from the house or store, I am the one who hangs around with you.     You hear My greeting in the grave, although you have never been away from...

Tags: Beloved, Death, Resurrection
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The One… (8/28/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted August 28, 2016

I am a slave and servant of the One who takes me to His soul, The One who makes my garden and meadow green. He shows me to the world and makes me famous in one moment, Then changes me to one without name or fame in the next. Rubailer, Page...

Tags: Death, God, Resurrection, Suffering, Thanks
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Drink Love’s Sherbet (7/17/16)

By MillicentIn quatrain (rubai), Rumi PoetryPosted July 17, 2016

Don’t let troubles grab your skirt, Or all the anxieties of the world will gather around you. Leave before God’s order is carried out; Before the Angel of Death closes your mouth, drink Love’s sherbet day and night. Rubailer, Page 217, Rubai #2

Tags: Death, Fasting, Love's Sugar
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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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