Weekly Poems

The Most Wondrous! (10/12/1025) Know that inside of you, you resemble a cave with a strange bazaar beyond it. Everyone has a chosen work and a friend there. But, there is also the hidden Beloved who is the most wondrous! The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai More...

These are from You (10/5/2025) O Love, You have cracked me into pieces as if I am a false idol. I’ll take you to the Judge. Nobody asked me to be a witness. I am a witness of my own accord.   But, You are the One who is judged. More...

Where Did I Learn…? (9/28/2025) O sky, you ask where I learned this whirling? I learned it from the One whose face is like the Moon. I am a particle to His sun. I learned this trembling, this dancing from Him.   The river of soul flows in the canal More...

The Way to That Place (9/21/2025) I am from the Soul who is the Soul of souls. I am from the place which is of no place. The way to that place has no end. Walk there without head, without feet. He is the head, and His are the feet. More...

A Funny, Bizarre Back Road (9/14/2025) O Universal Intellect,  don’t keep creating figures. O Universal Soul, break your pen. O searching man, don’t look for footprints on the surface of the water.   O pure-hearted Lover, walk like pure, clear running water, because this still, waveless water adds Soul to More...

Different (9/7/2025) My language is different from the language of others. My place is different from heaven and hell. Hearts which are free are animated by a soul which is different from others. The pure nature of their Essence comes from a different mine. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin More...

Patience is the Key to Suffering (8/31/2025) Be lost in grief, O soul. Patience is the key to suffering. Be lost in grief, so that in the end, He will show His face to you. Patience is the key to suffering.   Plunge into pain and suffering so deeply that when More...

The Source of Knowledge (8/24/2025) They say, “The source of knowledge, science and skill are from the universal intellect.” True, it did create this upside-down whirling sky and controls it with great precision. But, the intellect which has reasoning is only part of it. That part is called particular intellect. More...

Maybe You Will Get to Know Us (8/17/2025) O friend, if you do good to others, you better yourself a hundred times. Even if you turn your face in this way, maybe you will get to know Us.   I spread water on the ground to settle the dust and More...

For One Breath, Look (8/10/2025) They said, “God’s brilliance shines from all six dimensions.”* People cried and begged, “Where is that light?” A stranger looked at both the left side and the right. “One second,” he said. “For one breath, look, but without left or right.” The Rubaiyat of Rumi, More...