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Good Morning Ivan-la and Good Evening Andrew-la and Harsha-la,

 

In IM with a friend, son in hospital, having visions, eight, sending your

poem, Ivan, may go further than you know ... nice de-light, eh *g*

 

 

Rumi 147

 

Let go of deceptions O heart

Madness embrace, madness embrace

Moth-like, go to the heart of the hearth

Fire face, fire face

 

Make yourself a stranger

Turn your home to a manger

With the lovers of this danger

Cohabitate in one place, in one place

 

Open your heart like a tray

Vengeance wash away and pray

The wine of love, when down you lay

Your cup grace, your cup grace

 

You must become wholly a soul

To be worthy of the Divine Whole

If with the drunk you play your role

Drinking chase, drinking chase

 

The bead from the ear-ring

With cheek will speak and sing

If cheek and ear you seek and cling

Mother-of-pearl make your space

 

When your soul flies easy

>From this, our sweet fantasy

Like lovers in mortal ecstasy

Your story trace, your story trace

 

Go from this night of the grave

And the Divine Night brave

And like Divine, spirit crave

Make that your base, make that your base

 

Your mind will first imagine

Then will draw you therein

Trade mind and fate in your within

Onward race, onward race

 

A lock with an invisible bar

Enchains our hearts, keeps us afar

Become the key, the key you are

Like saw teeth brace, brace!

 

Lovers their wine draw

>From cup of skull with bone straw

In such a feast obey the law

Yourself efface, yourself efface.

 

To call this "accident" or "chance"

Puts your essence out of balance

In your earthly reign & kingly dance

Choose staff or mace, staff or mace!

 

Christ graced the wooden cross

Cross’s gain was our loss

Such compassion cannot emboss

On wooden vase, on wooden vase.

 

Solomon spoke of right & wrong

In the birds’ language & tongue

Soul’s bird to body’s trap don’t belong

Bird is your ace, bird is your ace.

 

If graced with Beloved’s affection

Like a mirror become reflection

If naked made such selection

Wrap in lace, wrap in lace.

 

How long crisscross like the rook?

Or like a pawn easily forsook?

Like a queen, obliquely look?

Straighten pace, straighten pace.

 

To love you gave with much pleasure

Every earthly weal and treasure

Forget treasure, yourself measure

For love’s case, for love’s case.

 

For sometime were mineral

Some other time were animal

Then human-like, erect & tall

Soul don’t debase, soul don’t debase.

 

O tongue may you become still

Not with speech egos fulfill

Spirit leaves tongue null and nil

No more disgrace, and nor deface.

 

O Shams-e Tabrizi come near

In my soul your place is dear

O King, my soul to joy steer

With regal grace, with regal grace!

 

Ó Shahriar Shahriari

Vancouver, Canada

July 21 & October 21, 1998

 

Love, Leela

 

p.s. Wim, Ivan, you guys are really masters of the subtle, eh?

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