Your Real Friend (12/8/2024) The one who cuts through your neck is the one who suffers your sorrow. The one who crowns you is the one who deceives you and robs you of your modesty. The one who loads you with goods is the one who burdens you. Your real More...
Look at Only This Snack (12/1/2024)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
Look at Only This Snack (12/1/2024) O suddenly-risen uproar! O endless compassion! O fire which sets the forest of thought ablaze! Today You came with a smile that was like the key to the dungeon. You came like God’s favor to the needy. We fell into the trap More...
Peace, Kindness and Abundance (11/24/2024) You are in the place of sorrow, struggle and cruelty. When you plunge into us and annihilate yourself, you will have peace, kindness and abundance. If you remain true, everything we have will be yours. If not, still, we will accept your wrongs as being More...
From the Land of Soul (11/17/2024) O Beloved whose light comes from behind the curtain, Your light and warmth are like summer for us. Take us to the rose garden. Our hearts are fiery like summer. O salve for the eyes of my soul, where did You go? Come, come, More...
The Image of the Beloved (11/10/2024) Tonight is the night when secrets are revealed, clean and lucid. The secrets in my heart are nothing but the image of the Beloved. O night, don’t pass quickly. I have a lot of work to do. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, More...
Birds Don’t Have to Worry (11/3/2024) O Cupbearer, O Cupbearer, today You and I exist here and have fallen into deep water. Let’s find out who knows how to swim. If a flood covers the Earth with waves as big as camels, the birds don’t have to worry. They think More...
Despite My Yelling (10/27/2024) He kept me burning despite my yelling and crying out to Him. When I kept silent, He burned me like the silent ones. He drove me beyond all boundaries, brought me back to the center, then set me on fire again. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The More...
Sometimes (10/20/2024) O Sultan of our body and soul! O One who makes us sometimes smile, sometimes grimace, O One who puts salve on the eyes of our body and soul! O Beautiful One, the moon is embarrassed seeing Your light, Your height. Let our blood be sacrificed to More...
Neither Form Nor Direction (10/13/2024) We inherited a boat from Noah as the prize of deliverance. It sails through storms on the sea of life. Thoughts, images, sorrows and pleasures are the plants which grow from this sea. Like the heart, they have neither form nor direction. The Rubaiyat of More...
The Time of Union Has Come (10/6/2024) Assume I am a thorn, a bad one. But, the thorn and rose go together. When a jeweler weighs gold, he puts barley as a weight on the other side of the scale. Actions go with ideas. Goods come from the Earth. More...