Posts tagged Great
Posts tagged Great
When I see your face, the stones start spinning!
You appear; all studying wanders.
I lose my place.
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Water turns pearly.
Fire dies down and doesn’t destroy.
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In your presence I don’t want what I thought
I wanted, those three little hanging lamps.
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Inside your face the ancient manuscripts
Seem like rusty mirrors.
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You breathe; new shapes appear,
and the music of a desire as widespread
as Spring begins to move
like a great wagon.
Drive slowly.
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Some of us walking alongside
are lame!
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
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Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
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When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
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You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
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People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
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The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
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I would love to kiss you.
The price of kissing is your life.
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Now my loving is running toward my life shouting,
What a bargain, let’s buy it.
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Daylight, full of small dancing particles
and the one great turning, our souls
are dancing with you, without feet, they dance.
Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?
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They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual?
They wonder about Solomon and all his wives.
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In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul
and you are that.
But we have ways within each other
that will never be said by anyone.
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Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts
in the pomegranate flowers.
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If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come, these do not matter.
- Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī