The Book of Love - Rumi

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Mashallah

 

There's someone swaying by your side,

lips that say Mahshallah, Mashallah.

 

Wonderful. God inside attraction.

A spring no one knew of wells up

on the valley floor.

 

Lights inside a tent lovers move toward.

The refuse of Damascus gets turned over

in the sun. Be like that yourself.

 

Say mercy, mercy to the one who guides

your soul, who keeps time.

 

Move, make a mistake, look

up. Checkmate.

 

~ Rumi, "The Book of Love"

 

 

 

 

You are an ocean in a drop of dew,

all the universes in a thin sack

 

of blood! What are these pleasures

then, these joys, these worlds,

 

that you keep reaching for, hoping

they will make you more alive?

 

~ Rumi, "The Book of Love"

 

 

 

 

Wonder Without Willpower

 

Love's way becomes a pen sometimes

writing g-sounds like gold or r-sounds

 

like tomorrow in different calligraphy

styles sliding by, darkening paper.

 

Now it's held upside down, now beside

the head, now down and on to something

 

else, figuring. One sentence saves

an illustrious man from disaster, but

 

fame does not matter to the split tongue

of a pen. Hippocrates knows the cure

 

must go. His pen does not. This one

I am calling pen, or sometimes flag,

 

has no mind. You, the pen, are most sanely

insane. You cannot be spoken of rationally.

 

Opposites are drawn into your presence but

not to be resolved. You are not whole

 

or even complete. You are the wonder

without willpower going where you want.

 

~ Rumi, "The Book of Love"

 

 

 

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

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