RUMI DAYS

Daily readings of the 13th Century Persian poet as translated by Coleman Barks

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Something Opens Our Wings

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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us. We taste only sacredness.
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Monday, September 6, 2010

The Generations I Praise

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Yesterday the beauty of early dawn came over me, and I wondered who my heart would reach toward. Then this morning again and you. Who am I? ...
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Sunday, September 5, 2010

That Quick

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A lover looks at creekwater and wants to be that quick to fall, to kneel all the way down in full prostration. A lover wants to die of his...
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Saturday, September 4, 2010

The Fish Way

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The ocean way is the fish way of the watersouls of fish who die becoming the sea. Fish do not wait patiently for water. In this world full...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Put This Design in Your Carpet (2)

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  Carpet from Konya, the place where Rumi died, in present day Turkey. Rumi celebrants call the day Rumi died his "Wedding Day," ...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Put This Design in Your Carpet (1)

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Spiritual experience is a modest woman who looks lovingly at only one man. It is a great river where ducks live happily, and crows drown. ...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

We Three

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My love wanders the rooms, melodious, flute notes, plucked wires, full of a wine the magi drank on the way to Bethlehem. We are three. The...
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