RUMI DAYS

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

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The Music

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For sixty years I have been forgetful, every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed. I deserve nothing. ...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

The Guest House

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This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unex...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

This Recklessness

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War Path, by Alfred Jacob Miller I have no vocation but this, and no need to touch every rose and thornpoint. You are seeing through my ey...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Grainy Taste

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Without a net, I catch a falcon and release it to the sky, hunting God. This wine I drink today was never held in a clay jar. I love this...
Friday, November 19, 2010

I See My Beauty in You

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I see my beauty in you, I become a mirror that cannot close its eyes to your longing. My eyes wet with yours in the early light. My mind e...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

An Elephant in the Dark

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Elephant, by Julia Watkins Some Hindus have an elephant to show. No one here has ever seen an elephant. They bring it at night to a dark ro...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

How Minds Most Want to Be

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You are the living marrow. The rest is hay. Dead grass does not nourish a human being. When you are not here, this desire we feel has no tr...
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