Running with Rumi

⊆ Thursday, May 21, 2009 by Donia | , , . | ˜ 0 comments »


(i started this entry on the 22nd of April. then the fun began and continued and continues...i took a lot of shelter in the insights and inspiration of this beloved poet. his writings have provided a lot of strength and assurance and catalysts of introspection this past month.)

My mind and heart are being run through by rumi...
here are some gems from today...

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When I am with you,
we stay up all night.
When you're not here,
I can't go to sleep.

Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

- Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi
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Love is the cure
Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love
as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

From Love Poems from God, by Daniel Ladinsky.


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Ode 1823

I don't get tired of you. Don't grow weary
of being compassionate toward me!


All this thirst equipment
must surely be tired of me,
the waterjar, the water carrier.


I have a thirsty fish in me
that can never find enough
of what it's thirsty for!


Show me the way to the ocean!
Break these half-measures,
these small containers.


All this fantasy
and grief.


Let my house be drowned in the wave
that rose last night in the courtyard
hidden in the center of my chest.


Joseph fell like the moon into my well.
The harvest I expected was washed away.
But no matter.


A fire has risen above my tombstone hat.
I don't want learning, or dignity,
or respectability.


I want this music and this dawn
and the warmth of your cheek against mine.


The grief-armies assemble,
but I'm not going with them.


This is how it always is
when I finish a poem.


A great silence comes over me,
and I wonder why I ever thought
to use language.

-From Coleman Bark's Like This
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For those who have a pretty penny to spare and want to wear their love for Rumi, you can check out what these people have to offer. I think i shall stick to memorization and internalizing.


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