One Moment for Me (7/21/2024) When my Essence turns into a sea of infinity, the faces of my particles shine. I burn like a candle on the way of Love so that all moments can become one moment for me. Rubailer (2026), Rubai 1, page 31 The Rubaiyat of Rumi, More...
Music is Inside of You (7/14/2024) The Beloved pulled my ear and said, “You are Ours tonight.” Yes, O Beautiful One, but appear to me. Where are You? If You leave excuses and show me the road to Your house, I will come walking on my head, dragging my More...
I Prefer Silence (7/7/2024) You have said so many times, “I have given up words. I prefer silence.” Yet, you turn around words, so much so that you have turned into talk. You sail with word’s ship on the sea of thought, that sea which you have not yet renounced More...
Pure Gold (6/30/2024) You are a Joseph in beauty. Break the jar of beauty. Use your breath like Jesus. You are from that same air. Stay in line even though you are all by yourself. You are the emperor of our time. There is a door of that fort More...
The Mirror (6/23/2024) Poor heart, you are the mirror of everything. God has favored you with beautiful attributes, and you act like you don’t even see them. Such rebellion can give you nothing but headaches. O mirror which has accepted good as bad as it reflects on you, you don’t More...
Isn’t That True or False? (6/16/2024) At the time of evening prayers, everyone lights their candle and sets their table. Yet, I put the Beloved’s image in front of me. I cry and yell with sorrow and longing. Since I do my ablution with tears, my prayers become fiery. More...
When You Become a Friend… (6/9/2024) When you become a friend of One whose heart is in God, know that, just like your fate, your soul will fall into Love’s fire. Don’t worry. Don’t run away. Know well that from then on, it will be impossible to contain you anywhere. More...
Hiding (6/2/2024)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
Hiding (6/2/2024) Who are You that You envelope all of the world in my heart? You are the epigram of the world. I wonder which epigram is Your favorite! Who are You? Who am I? What is Your name? What is my name? What kind of seed are You? More...
Before You are Cooked (5/26/2024) Before you are cooked in the flames of your heart, you are nothing but wet kindling. Unless you tear up the body’s cloak, the flames of Love cannot be your mentor. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 1, page 439. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (pub.2024), More...
The Land of Truth (5/19/2024) Hey, night guard, what kind of guard are you anyway? A thief stole all of our belongings last night. Slap cold water on your face. Yell and scream. Our gains became a loss because of your sleep. At night, the sleep of the night More...