See the Bloody Tears (1/12/2025) See the bloody tears, the hundreds of torn shirts caused by Your grief. Listen to all the yelling and screaming. Look at the blood of my lungs, smeared all over my face, my back, my front. The one who sees Your face runs from More...
From the Heart (1/5/2025) This clay body of mine is the glass for the heart. My best thought is merely the raw wine of the heart. A tiny grain of knowledge is nothing but a trap for the heart. I am saying these words, but they come from the heart. More...
Words Coming from Our Secret (12/29/2024) You hide meaning in death, awakeness in sleep. You get spring water from stone. You manifest faithfulness in lightning. Everywhere, the dark torrent of the night carries away mind and intelligence. Who better to bring them back than the follower of a mature More...
That Candle of the Heart is Searching (12/22/2024)
Category: quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
That Candle of the Heart is Searching (12/22/2024) Cheers and screams of lovers are coming, thanks to that candle of joy. But, how strange! That candle was already lit when it was brought in, yet there are no moths even near it. Here is a candle better than any day and More...
Our Mountain Echoes Your Voice to You (12/15/2024)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
Our Mountain Echoes Your Voice to You (12/15/2014) O our Friend, our Beloved, our Confidant, the Light of our bizarre! Look! Last year has fallen in love with our present time. We are all wasteful. To us, You are hundreds of treasures, hundreds of our spent monies. We More...
Your Real Friend (12/8/2024) The one who cuts through your neck is the one who suffers your sorrow. The one who crowns you is the one who deceives you and robs you of your modesty. The one who loads you with goods is the one who burdens you. Your real More...
Look at Only This Snack (12/1/2024)
Category: Gazel (longer poem), quatrain (rubai), Rumi Poetry, Weekly Poems
Look at Only This Snack (12/1/2024) O suddenly-risen uproar! O endless compassion! O fire which sets the forest of thought ablaze! Today You came with a smile that was like the key to the dungeon. You came like God’s favor to the needy. We fell into the trap More...
Peace, Kindness and Abundance (11/24/2024) You are in the place of sorrow, struggle and cruelty. When you plunge into us and annihilate yourself, you will have peace, kindness and abundance. If you remain true, everything we have will be yours. If not, still, we will accept your wrongs as being More...
From the Land of Soul (11/17/2024) O Beloved whose light comes from behind the curtain, Your light and warmth are like summer for us. Take us to the rose garden. Our hearts are fiery like summer. O salve for the eyes of my soul, where did You go? Come, come, More...
The Image of the Beloved (11/10/2024) Tonight is the night when secrets are revealed, clean and lucid. The secrets in my heart are nothing but the image of the Beloved. O night, don’t pass quickly. I have a lot of work to do. The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations, More...