Weekly Poems

Drunk with the Wine of Eternity (5/25/2025) One the Fire of the Heart blazes, it burns the faithful as well as the unfaithful. Once the Bird of Essence flies, all of existence disappears   The world is demolished. The Soul plunges into the flood. The same water which melts pearl More...

Merely My Reflection (5/18/2025) Why does this dark sorrow blindly entwine my heart? Is it blind, or does it see blindness in me? I am in the heights of the sky. This clay and water body of mine is merely my reflection. Who could look at a star in the More...

When the Lover Breathes (5/11/2025) When the Lover breathes, flames spread throughout the Universe. One breath shatters this illusionary world into particles.   The world becomes an ocean from beginning to end, and the ocean disappears in its majesty. If this were made manifest for even one second to the More...

The Sorrow of Love (5/4/2025) Who is more miserable than an impatient lover? There is no cure for Love’s sickness. Goodness and badness don’t help the sorrow of Love. There is neither fidelity nor cruelty in real, true Love. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, Volume 3, rubai 1272, More...

In Real Existence… (4/27/2025) Thinking in terms of profit and self-interest are signs of poverty. Clean people follow God’s habit. They contribute.   Some hidden return is expected from every generosity. Once you reach His Love, there is no greed, no generosity.   But here and now, generosity is like More...

There is a Price to be Paid (4/20/2025) There is a place beyond faith and heresy which is not for all the ones who are just starting out young and fresh. There is a price to be paid: One has to give up one’s life and sacrifice one’s heart. The More...

This Soul Wants Privacy (4/13/2025) How long will I be suffering because of this donkey of a body? It keeps asking constantly for straw and barley. Yet in the sky, the galaxy of the Milky Way is full of nourishment.   A donkey can’t have a share of that glory. More...

Wqter Became His…Home (4/6/2025) Rain poured down on a man’s head. The rain kept coming, so he took shelter in his home. A duck seeing this fluttered its wings. “Give all the rain to me,” the duck said, “to the one who was created out of water!” And, water became More...

Patience is the Key to Suffering (3/30/2025) Be lost in grief, O soul. Patience is the key to suffering. Be lost in grief so that in the end, He will show His face to you. Patience is the key to suffering.   Plunge into pain and suffering so deeply that More...

No Ending (3/23/2025) I said to the night, “If you are in love with the moon which enlightens you, why do you pass through so quickly? That is no good. It shows disloyalty, this lack of respect for the moon.” Night turned its face towards me and protested, “It is More...