Weekly Poems

His Light Shines inside of this Storm (8/30/2026) I told the Beloved yesterday, “O, peerless Beauty, even the moon in the sky has become jealous of You and has folded in two.”   You were beautiful. Now, Your Beauty has increased a hundred fold. You were the doorkeeper. Now, You’ve More...

Are You Remembering? (8/23/2026) O sultan, are you remembering the throne? Are you remembering the Sultan of sultans? O imperial tent, your flaps have been dancing. Are you remembering that the wind can change you from one form to another? The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 4, rubai More...

Grow Your Wings (8/16/2026) His image in your heart offers endless favors, just so you won’t look anywhere else.   But, if you step outside of this six-doored chapel, you’ll meet the One whose fate is clean. You’ll reach His ecstasy.   Don’t look for six directions, six doors. You More...

Don’t Leave Me (8/9/2026) O gentle hearts who are sowing the seeds of loyalty and scattering pearls of joy on black soil, wherever you are, you know my situation. Please, don’t leave me in the land of separation! The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 4, rubai 1493, page More...

Once You Reach the Beloved (8/2/2026) A heart-catching smell has come from the sky, saving every tired, broken-hearted prey from the trap of the flesh.   Every bird has gained hundreds of wings & keeps flying to the star of Pleiades. Every kind of weight, even every mountain has started More...

Ordinary and Forgotten (7/26/2026) My face was very pale before today. My heart was crying, crying, crying. I was crazy like that lover Majnun. But, something just happened to me. Now everything in the past has become ordinary and forgotten. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 4, rubai More...

Saved from the Sword of Death (7/19/2026) Sounds are coming from the sky every moment, but no one hears them except the Ones who are in a state of ecstasy.   O one who bends his head down like a donkey, drink less of this water, eat less of this More...

In the Sea of Abundance (7/12/2026) The one who is not harmed by poison drinks poison like wine, O cupbearer. When existence disappears, Absence comes. The person who is saved from the self drinks wine in the sea of abundance, cup after cup. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, More...

That Place You Know So Well (7/5/2026( O One who rides the horse of eternity and is leaving this temporary monastery, You know Your way. You’re going to that place You know so well.   Without becoming friends with material things and symptoms, without falling into the trap, without slowing More...

Chain of Saints (6/27/2026) When you fall in Love and become crazy-insane, you will be tied to the chain of saints. Today, you are deprived of that chain, because you are immersed in life and sober. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 4, rubai 1479, page 53. More...