Category: Rumi

A Beggar

8/29/2013

A beggar smiled at me and offered me alms

In a dream last night, my heart sprang with delight.

His beauty and grace which shone from his tattered

Presence took me by storm until I woke at dawn.

His poverty was riches, it covered my body in silk.

In that dream I heard the beckoning sighs of lovers,

I heard soft cries of agonized joy saying: “Take this,

Dring and be complete!” I saw before me a ring

Jewelled in poverty and then it nested on my ear.

From the root of my surging soul a hundred tremors

Rose as I was taken and pinned down by the surging sea.

Then heaven groaned with bliss and made a beggar of me.

Divan 2015

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

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The Lovers Will Drink Wine

6/24/2013

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The Lovers will drink wine
night and day.They will drink
until they can tear away the veils
of intellect and melt away the
layers of shame and
modesty.
When
in
L
O
V
E,
body, mind, heart and soul

Don't even exist.

Become this, fall in Love, and you will not be separated again.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

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Fasting

7/23/2012

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There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.
We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox
is stuffed full of anything, no music.
If the brain and belly are burning clean
with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire.

The fog clears, and new energy makes you
run up the steps in front of you.
Be emptier and cry like reed instruments cry.
Emptier, write secrets with the reed pen.

When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits
where your spirit should, an ugly metal statue
in place of the Kaaba. When you fast,
good habits gather like friends who want to help.

Fasting is Solomon's ring. Don't give it
to some illusion and lose your power,
but even if you have, if you've lost all will and control,
they come back when you fast, like soldiers appearing
out of the ground, pennants flying above them.

A table descends to your tents,
Jesus' table.
Expect to see it, when you fast, this table
spread with other food, better than the broth of cabbages.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

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Non-Existence

4/17/2012

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Tonight I am not here. Don’t look for me tonight for I have departed from this world and gone into the arms of my Beloved. My soul lives only where he exists. I have dissolved into him and there is no more of ‘me’ left; I am Him. All that remains is my body. My heart and my soul are far away from this place you call the Universe … Don’t look for me tonight. Tonight I don’t exist.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

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Preventing Dawn

3/21/2012

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I whirl with my Lover
And talk to my Heart:
O Lord
May the key to the dawn
Be lost tonight.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

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Sweet Bitterness

2/28/2012

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Oh sweet bitterness
I will soothe you and heal you
I will bring you roses
I, too, have been covered with thorns

Mevlana Jaluluddin Rumi

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Through Love

2/19/2012

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Through love bitter things seem sweet.

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

Through love dregs taste like clear wine.

Through love agonies are healing balms.

Through love thorns become roses.

Through love vinegar becomes rich wine.

Through love the scaffold becomes a throne.

Through love disaster becomes good fortune.

Through love a prison becomes a rose garden.

Through love burning fire is a fragrant light.

Through love the devil becomes an angel.

Through love stones become soft as butter.

Through love grief is like delight.

Through love demons become servants of God.

Through love stings are like honey.

Through love lions are harmless as mice.

Through love sickness is health.

Through love the dead are resurrected.

Through love the emperor becomes a slave.

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

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A Beggar

The Lovers Will Drink Wine

Fasting

Non-Existence

Preventing Dawn

Sweet Bitterness

Through Love

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