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Ruminations by Rumi (aka Jelaluddin Balkhi)

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Water from your Spring

 

What was in that candle's light

that opened and consumed me so quickly?

 

Come back, my friend! The form of our love

is not a created form.

 

Nothing can help me but that beauty.

There was a dawn I remember

 

when my soul heard something

from your soul. I drank water

 

from your spring and felt

the current take me.

 

 

Granite and Wineglass

 

You are granite.

I am an empty wineglass.

 

You know what happens when we touch!

You laugh like the sun coming up laughs

at a star that disappears into it.

 

Love opens my chest, and thought

returns to its confines.

 

Patience and rational considerations leave.

Only passion stays, whimpering and feverish.

 

Some men fall down in the road like dregs thrown out.

Then, totally reckless, the next morning

 

they gallop out with new purposes. Love

is the reality, and poetry is the drum

 

that calls us to that. Don't keep complaining

about loneliness! Let the fear-language of that theme

 

crack open and float away. Let the priest come down

from his tower, and not go back up!

 

 

With Delight In Light and Love

Lynette"may I always endeavor to write from the

heart"www.geocities.com/poetic_delight/

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