Weekly Poems

Lovers of Love (2/16/2020) We are the lovers of Love. Love is our salvation. The soul resembles Hizir.* Love resembles the Water of Life. Alas to the one who is not decorated by the Sultan of Love. How could an animal know the soul’s sugar? *Hizir  A legendary Godsend who More...

Make Sure You Learn This Sign (2/9/2020) Something is striking like lightning. I wonder if that is my heart captivating the Beloved. What is shining from that corner? Is that the ruby mine?   What is around that pearl? Is it the Moon or a star? It is suspended like More...

Just Look (2/2/2020) When grief covers everywhere, everything, the one who grabs Love becomes carefree. Just look at the particle. When it touched Love, it turned into a shape which created universes. Rubailer (2016), Rubai #1, page 116. More...

O Heart, Be Brave (j1/26/2020) He is such a Beauty that He teaches endearing behaviors to the Moon and Venus all night long. Both of His eyes cover the eyes of the sky with magic.   O religious ones, save your hearts, because I have merged so much with Him More...

How Can We Escape (1/19/20) Love came and broke my regret as if it were a bottle. How can we escape Love’s constant breaking and repairing? Who can repair a broken bottle except Love? Rubailer (2016), Rubai #3, page 112. More...

How Lucky (1/12/10) The soul’s Sultan pushes us from one play to another as if we were pawns in a chess game. I wonder if He wins. I wonder if He is ever checkmated. After all, aren’t we the ones on trial?   He picked up our particles, gathered them More...

There is a Way (1/5/20) O confused heart, the way to the Beloved is through your soul. O one who has lost his way, there is a road to the Beloved which is both known and unknown. Don’t worry if your way is blocked from all six directions. There is More...

No Place for Water and Earth (12/29/19) Look at these fragments of soul which have been chipped off, sparkling in this valley. Watch this sea. Watch these ships as they collide with each other.   Look at Azra. See Vamuk.* See those creatures in the fire. Look at the Beloved. See More...

Love Has Arrived (12/22/19) Love has arrived and become the blood in my skin and veins. It has emptied me of my self, filling me with the Beloved. Every part of my body is now occupied by the Beloved. Only my name has been left to me. He has become More...

The Situation (12/15/19) I tried to describe the situation of my heart as I knew it. The tears and blood of my heart had become rough, but I couldn’t explain it.   It was the other day, I was talking about my heart, saying a few words which were really More...