Guest guest Posted October 5, 2002 Report Share Posted October 5, 2002 your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral. you can never see your own face, only a reflection not the face itself. so you sigh in front of mirrors and cloud the surface. it's better to keep your breath cold. hold it, like a diver does in the ocean. one slight movement, the mirror-image goes. don't be dead or asleep or awake don't be anything. what you most want what you travel around wishing to find, lose yourself as lovers lose themselves and you'll be that. --Attar version by coleman barks ps. attar and sanai were perhaps two of the most influential figures on rumi. this is not a cut & paste. i typed this poem from the " rumi and the mystical sufi poets " 2002 calendar by the freer gallery of art, smithsonian institution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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