Weekly Poems

Scared (1/17/2021) I have traveled from town to town, but I haven’t seen any city like the city of Love.   At the beginning, I didn’t appreciate the value of that city, and because of my ignorance, I suffered much in exile.   I left that land of sugar cane More...

These Uproars (1/10/2021) We are being carried away by our desire to see the face of that Sultan. We are submerged like fish in His Love, His sea of eternal life. Dawn has broken. Morning has come. We are upset by these uproars, this untimely morning. We are begging for More...

The Light Calling Out (1/3/2021) I don’t know how I became annihilated from that wine. I don’t know where I am because of the beauty of placelessness.   Once I was at the bottom of the sea. but then I rose like the sun.   Sometimes I made the Earth More...

All Hearts Tremble (12/27/2020) While the Beloved looks on from behind the curtain, the world’s face changes from one color to another. All hearts tremble. Nine levels of the sky are as confused and amazed as we are all because of His Love. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #3, page 285.   More...

That World (12/20/2020) The shouts of the drunk are coming from the heavens. That drunk is coming with yells and cries and screams. The soul and the world have become exuberant thanks to all such clamor. They both are coming from that World. Rubailer (2016), Rubai 4, page 171. More...

From the Breath of Love (12/13/2020) I come slowly like water under straw and carry away the mountain as if it were a piece of straw.   I drip from the gutter, drop by drop. But, like a flood, I pick up and carry away hundreds of palaces.   I More...

Do You Want to Know…(12/6/2020) Do you want to know about separation? That is the road for lovers. A fish’s life depends on the sea. He desires the sea whenever he is separated from it. People usually desire the sun, although sometimes they do desire a shadow. A soul is More...

Come Closer So I Can Show It To You (11/29/2020) Your soul is so close to my soul that I know whatever you think.   I have even better proof than this. Come closer so I can show it to you.   Come to the front of poverty. Don’t cheat. More...

The Real Treasure (11/22/2020) Absence is Essence. Everything else is an attribute. Absence is health. Everything else is an illness. This world is a big headache, a grand illusion. Absence is the real treasure. To reach it is the purpose of this world. Rubailer (2016), Rubai#1, page 277. More...

Heart (11/15/2020) What kind of work bench do You have in that heart? What idols are You carving in that heart?   Spring has come. It is seed time. Who knows what You are sowing in that heart?   Outside, You are covered with curtains of secrecy. But, You are wide More...