Your Heart (6/29/2025) With the wings of Your heart, You flew to this desert plain of existence, which melted in the greatness of Your heart’s expanse. What is this small plain in comparison with Your heart? All seven layers of the sky are only the open palm of Your hand. More...
Parrots Eat Sugar (6/22/2025) Go. Open the eye of your soul and look for lovers. They’re like the heart in an upside-down gathering, an assembly that has no head, no feet. Those lovers all keep working with out earning, without profit. They are all boiling like a kettle. They More...
You are Invisible (6/15/2025) You are invisible to me, because these eyes can still see only shapes and colors. Even so, I cannot take my heart away from You. You are soul, my sweet soul. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai 1304, page 198. More...
Your End is to Realize the Truth (6/8/2025)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
Your End is to Realize the Truth (6/8/2025) Drunkenness is sending its greeting to You, is sending news to You secretly. The one whose heart You grabbed is making his soul a slave to You. O One who makes existence non-existent, hear the greeting of this drunk. He is More...
My Troubles (6/12025) All this conniving for Your Love has gotten me nothing. I have shed bloody tears, but my suffering has gotten me nothing. I have found no relief from this pain. But, how could anyone help? All my troubles are nothing. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, More...
Drunk with the Wine of Eternity (5/25/2025)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
Drunk with the Wine of Eternity (5/25/2025) One the Fire of the Heart blazes, it burns the faithful as well as the unfaithful. Once the Bird of Essence flies, all of existence disappears The world is demolished. The Soul plunges into the flood. The same water which melts pearl More...
Merely My Reflection (5/18/2025) Why does this dark sorrow blindly entwine my heart? Is it blind, or does it see blindness in me? I am in the heights of the sky. This clay and water body of mine is merely my reflection. Who could look at a star in the More...
When the Lover Breathes (5/11/2025) When the Lover breathes, flames spread throughout the Universe. One breath shatters this illusionary world into particles. The world becomes an ocean from beginning to end, and the ocean disappears in its majesty. If this were made manifest for even one second to the More...
The Sorrow of Love (5/4/2025) Who is more miserable than an impatient lover? There is no cure for Love’s sickness. Goodness and badness don’t help the sorrow of Love. There is neither fidelity nor cruelty in real, true Love. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai 1272, More...
In Real Existence… (4/27/2025) Thinking in terms of profit and self-interest are signs of poverty. Clean people follow God’s habit. They contribute. Some hidden return is expected from every generosity. Once you reach His Love, there is no greed, no generosity. But here and now, generosity is like More...