Weekly Poems

Stay for Awhile (7/14/19) A sugar buyer comes, saying, “A caravan has arrived from Egypt.”   Hundreds of camels come loaded with sugar cane. O my God, what a beautiful gift.   Suddenly, and this is in the middle of the night, a candle is brought in and life comes More...

Bravo to Our Powers and Abilities! (7/7/19) Sometimes , the angels are jealous of our purity. Sometimes, the devil is afraid of our recklessness. Our clay body carries God’s gift. Bravos to our power and abilities! Rubailer (2016), Rubai #3, page 43. More...

I Have No Constancy, No Peace (6/30/19) He said, “I am the fire which burns you.” I answered, “Yes, but Your Love and Your sun are in my heart.   “If I smell one rose without Your Love, burn me right away like a thorn.”   I keep silent like More...

Please Do Me a Favor! (6/23/19) I was heart and soul without a body before… pure, clean, pleasant. You built my body as a guest house and put my soul in it. O my Master, please, do me a favor! Pardon me. Recreate me as You did before. Bring me back to More...

Anger (6/16/19) If you keep getting angry on your journey, your exuberance will soon fade away. You will turn into cold ice.   And if your anger turns into fury. that may look and feel like sugar, but it is actually poison.   A blind rat is angry. ‘How does More...

All the World’s Sorrows (6/9/19) My Beloved whose scattered hair makes everyone confused, whose sweet ruby lips scatter sugar and honey, that Beloved asked me, “Are you sorry about our separation?” I answered, “O my soul, so much so that all the world’s sorrows are in that sorry.” Rubailer (2016), More...

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA O one who holds the halter of time, O one who opens the door of the paradise of meanings!   Your divinity is what makes everything appear and scatter. Your world of appearances is the ladder of wishes.   One who looks for You by following directions More...

Once life is ended, God gives another life, a different one.If this temporary life is annihilated, here is the permanent one:Love is the Water of Life. Plunge into it.There is new life in every drop of that sea.Rubailer (2016), Rubai #3, Page 42. The Water of Life (5/26/19) More...

We have seen that time has no beginning of its beginning, because we are the ones who have fallen in Love. The others are merely spectators.   Those spectators are tired and bored. Only that red-hot heart who eats lightning remains.   Like the sky, we are friends and acquaintances More...

Love for You has killed Turks as well as Arabs. We are slaves and servants to those martyrs, those generals. Love for You is saying, “No one escapes Me. I own all souls.” He is right, O heart. Quit playing. Rubailer (2016), Page 40, Rubai #4. More...