You've so distracted me,
your absence fans my love.
don't ask how.
Then you come near.
"Do not..." I say, and
"do not..." you answer.
Don't ask why
this delights me.
Mevlana Rumi (translations - coleman barks/john moyne)
Naatamaam - Poetry, Words, Parables
love poetry, sufi poetry, mystic poetry, urdu poetry, persian poetry, sufi poetry, laila & majnun, khusrau, mevlana rumi, tagore, hafiz, attar, sa'adi, & many more beloved poets and poems...................In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. - Mevlana Rumi
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Kabir - My Body is Flooded
My body is flooded
With the flame of Love
My soul lives in
A furnace of bliss.
Love's fragrance
Fills my mouth,
And fans through all things
With each outbreath
-Kabir
With the flame of Love
My soul lives in
A furnace of bliss.
Love's fragrance
Fills my mouth,
And fans through all things
With each outbreath
-Kabir
Kabir - Do Not Blame Love
Do not blame Love for the agony it brings;
Love is the King of all paths,
And the heart not wild with longing
Is already dead, already a burial ground.
Love is the King of all paths,
And the heart not wild with longing
Is already dead, already a burial ground.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Bakharzi - You Are The Sun
Glimpsing your lovely face, my poor eyes stare
And brim with water like spring clouds; but there -
You are the sun; the eyes of anyone
Will water if he gazes at the sun
- Tajaddin Bakharzi (Seljuk period, Bakharz)
And brim with water like spring clouds; but there -
You are the sun; the eyes of anyone
Will water if he gazes at the sun
- Tajaddin Bakharzi (Seljuk period, Bakharz)
Am'aq - Love Makes Me Wish
Love makes me wish that everyone were blind
And only I could see you and revere you,
or that my own two eyes were blind-and then
I would not see the others hovering near you
-Am'aq (12th century, Bokhara)
And only I could see you and revere you,
or that my own two eyes were blind-and then
I would not see the others hovering near you
-Am'aq (12th century, Bokhara)
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Rumi - The Minute I Heard My First Love Story
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
-Mevlana Rumi
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.
-Mevlana Rumi
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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