What Should I Save It For? (12/21/2025) Since I can no longer bear the heaviness of my heart, I might as well give my heart to my longing for You. What can I do with a heart which doesn’t burn with the sorrow of Love? What is its use to More...
Look at Water and Fire (12/14/2024) Look at Love. It is joined to and merged with lovers. Look at the soul become one with the land of soil. How long will you be seeing this and that, good and bad? Look and see that this and that are joined More...
From words to Ecstasy (`12/7/2025) The secret of Truth cannot be understood by asking questions, gathering information, or spending all your wealth and belongings. If you haven’t cried for fifty years with bloody tears, if you haven’t burned your heart out, you will not find the way from words to More...
Hundreds of Gifts (11/30/2025) O gardener, autumn has come, autumn has come. See the signs of the heart’s sorrow on the leaves and branches. O gardener, listen carefully. Hear the cries of the trees. There are hundreds of souls, hundreds of souls wailing silently everywhere. Eyes don’t tear More...
What You Think is Evidence (11/23/2025) The mind may give you what you think is evidence. Love gives you the Beloved, the Friend. What comes from the mind is nothing but dirty water. What comes from the Beloved is the Water of Life. You may ascend to the sky with More...
Take the Weight from Me (11/16/2025) O my Beloved, O my Beloved! O One who doesn’t know mercy! O my charmer, the One who took my heart! O my confidant, the One who relieves my grief! O One who becomes the Moon for us on Earth! O One who More...
A Real Lover (11/9/2025) The lover’s heart never grieves. Nothing but Love ever affects it. A real lover will never be buried in a grave. Since he is pure and clean, he will go to the world of purity. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai 1374, More...
What is Inside of You (11/2/2025) Yesterday, that Beloved put a golden crown on my head. Go on. Hit me. It doesn’t matter how much you do. The drunkenness of that wine won’t leave me. The Sultan who sews the hat of eternity wears it at night. He took More...
If Your Heart Were to Hold Your Hand (10/26/2025)
Category: quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
If Your Heart Holds Your Hand (10/26/2025) Since you haven’t taken care of your heart, it hasn’t held your hand, and you haven’t gotten a fair share of Love. You can’t love just anyone! If your heart were to hold your hand, you wouldn’t fall in the mud of lowly More...
How Long Must We Wait? (10/19/2025) O One who, without a wine cup, gives to the soul ecstasy even better than eternal drunkenness, come, if for only one moment. Give us our blessing, that moment which has been cleaned of everything, including cleanness. How long must we wait for that More...