Lovers of Rumi

Lose Yourself and Gain Everything

I come to you without me, come to me without you.
Self is the thorn in the sole of the soul.
Merge with others,
If you stay in self, you are a grain, you are a drop,
If you merge with others, you are an ocean, you are a mine.

kiakam wrote on Jun 28, 04:22 PM | Comments (0) |

Say I am You

kiakam wrote on Jan 17, 07:42 PM | Comments (1) |

True Lovers of Rumi

Shahram and Hafez Nazeri performing: In the Path of Rumi
Those devoted to God always find a way to gather!

kiakam wrote on Jan 13, 11:56 PM | Comments (1) |

Layla's* Dog ( Terrific Poem Take A Read! )

Here, Sunlight offers the tale of Majnun and Layla's dog, from
the Mathnawi, in a version by Coleman Barks, and in the translation
by Nicholson upon which Barks based his interpretation:

luvcum4ter wrote on Jan 08, 10:08 PM | Comments (1) |

"For lovers, advice is never useful!"

Each Note

Advice doesn't help lovers!
They're not the kind of mountain stream
you can build a dam across.

An intellectual doesn't know
what the drunk is feeling!

Don't try to figure
what those lost inside love
will do next!

Someone in charge would give up all his power,
if he caught one whiff of the wine-musk
from the room where the lovers
are doing who-knows-what!

luvcum4ter wrote on Dec 04, 06:37 PM | Comments (0) |

Once again, once again I have escaped from my chains" -- Ghazal 1472

once again
i broke free of the chains
of the wicked traps
of this world

once again
by your youthful love
i was saved from
this fraud-filled wizard
we call life
non-stop
running day and night
i finally had to cut myself off
from this deadly routine
leaping free as an arrow
from the grip of the cosmic bow

now i have no more fear
of grief and anxiety
i've learned to compete
with death itself

luvcum4ter wrote on Dec 02, 12:40 PM | Comments (2) |

The Sanctuary of Love

Who is in the house of my heart,
I cried in the middle of the night.
Love said,
"It is I, but what are all these images that fill your house?"
I said, they are the reflection of your beautiful face.
She asked,

luvcum4ter wrote on Dec 02, 12:36 PM | Comments (0) |

"Take counsel with the company of the righteous"

Take counsel with the company of the righteous:
note the Divine command given to the Prophet, "Consult them."*
The words their affair is a matter for consultation* * are for this
purpose;
through consultation mistakes and errors occur less often.
Human intellects are luminous like lamps:
twenty lamps are brighter than one.
There may happen to be among them
one lamp aflame with spiritual light,
for the jealousy of God sometimes lowers veils,
mingling the lofty with the low.
He has said, "Travel"***:
seek your fortune in the world and reap its benefits.

luvcum4ter wrote on Nov 28, 10:29 PM | Comments (1) |

Holiday Without Limits

Going into battle, we carry no shield.

Playing in concert, unaware

Of the beat or the melody.

We have become grains in the ground underfoot,

Fold on fold, layers of love, nothing else.

Obliterated, as when the eye medicine

Is no longer even a powder,

Then it cures sight.

An accident gradually gets accepted

As the thing that needed to happen.

kiakam wrote on Nov 02, 02:11 AM | Comments (1) |

Memory of the birth of Maulaana Jalalludin Balkhi, known as Rumi

In memory of the birth of Maulaana Jalalludin Balkhi, known as
Rumi, Sunlight offers the first verses from his Mathnawi, the story
of The Song of the Reed, in an interpretive version by Jonathan Star,
in translation by Dr. Franklin Lewis, and in translation by Dr.
Ibrahim Gamard, accompanied by a Persian transliteration.

luvcum4ter wrote on Oct 13, 01:00 PM | Comments (1) |