Guest guest Posted August 22, 2005 Report Share Posted August 22, 2005 Hi Beloveds, let this be an answer.... Love, Light and peace, Anna - <sshomi <Sunlight > Monday, August 22, 2005 11:08 AM [sunlight] " The Fragile Vial " > > > ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ > > " The Fragile Vial " > > I need a mouth as wide as the sky > to say the nature of a True Person, language > as large as longing. > > The fragile vial inside me often breaks. > No wonder I go mad and disappear for three days > every month with the moon. > > For anyone in love with you, > it's always these invisible days. > > I've lost the thread of the story I was telling. > My elephant roams his dream of Hindustan again. > Narrative, poetics, destroyed, my body, > a dissolving, a return. > > Friend, I've shrunk to a hair trying to say your story. > Would you tell mine? > I've made up so many love stories. > Now I feel fictional. > Tell me! > The truth is, you are speaking, not me. > I am Sinai, and you are Moses walking there. > This poetry is an echo of what you say. > A piece of land can't speak, or know anything! > Or if it can, only within limits. > > The body is a device to calculate > the astronomy of the spirit. > Look through that astrolabe > and become oceanic. > > Why this distracted talk? > It's not my fault I rave. > You did this. > Do you approve of my love-madness? > > Say yes. > What language will you say it in, Arabic or Persian, > or what? Once again, I must be tied up. > Bring the curly ropes of your hair. > Now I remember the story. > A True Man stares at his old shoes > and sheepskin jacket. Every day he goes up > to his attic to look at his work-shoes and worn-out coat. > This is his wisdom, to remember the original clay > and not get drunk with ego and arrogance. > > To visit those shoes and jacket > is praise. > > The Absolute works with nothing. > The workshop, the materials > are what does not exist. > > Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. > Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, > where something might be planted, > a seed, possibly, from the Absolute. > > -- Mathnawi V; 1884-1920; 1959-64 > Poetic version by Coleman Barks > " The Essential Rumi " > HarperSanFrancisco, 1995 > > ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ > > > . . > > > > > > Archive for Sunlight can be accessed at: > Sunlight /messages > To , please send an email to : sunlight- > To , please send an email to: > sunlight- > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.