Because I Endured 8/3/2025 An image appeared to my eyes, saying, “I’ve come from the rose garden of my Beloved and the quarters of the Tavernkeeper. Look at my sleepy eyes. “I am the essence of drunkenness and the wish and desire of existence. I am the top. I am More...
Galloping High Among the Stars (7/27/20245) While Your Love was galloping high among the stars, my poor heart recognized You through secret signs. When I free myself from the bonds of existence, what wonderful Love games my heart will play with You in the Land of Absence! The Rubaiyat of More...
The Fragrance without Words (7/20/2025) This time, I really got involved with Love and separated completely from devoutness. I am no longer alive because of my heart. I am alive with something else. I burned my mind from the bottom up and did the same with my heart and More...
Only a Mystery (7/13/2025) There is neither question nor answer on the way to Love, but only a mystery. The lover never answers to any human order. This is a matter of Absence, not existence. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai 1314, page 203. More...
O Lovers, O Lovers (7/6/2025) O lovers, O lovers, I will turn dirt into jewels. O players, O players, I will fill your tambourines with gold. O thirsty ones, O thirsty ones, I will become the Cupbearer today. I will turn this barren land into Heaven and make it More...
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...