Posted in Life, Love, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged Found Poem, Poems on February 7, 2010 | 6 Comments »
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Here is another “found” poem I have created. This time I’ve brought Rumi and Rilke together. No small task! Great poets they were but not contemporaries as are Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry in my previous found poem. This particular found poem starts with two lines from a Rumi poem and then alternates with [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Love, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged God, Inspire, Poems on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Who can find a trace of you?
There isn’t even a bit of dust from your track.
Who could find your home?
You have no home.
How can I praise you?
What can I say about you?
Foam is the only form in the sea of meaning.
A great, unseen town
lies just behind that curtain
Our world is nothing compared to that.
Don’t [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged Poems on October 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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I’m the slave of the Moon. Talk of nothing but moon,
or brightness and sweetness. Other than that, say nothing.
Don’t tell of suffering, talk of nothing but blessings.
If you know nothing about them, no matter. Say nothing.
Last night I went wild. Love saw me and said:
I’m here. Don’t shout, don’t rip your shirt, say [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Mindfulness, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged Blessed, Inspire, Love, Poems, Youtube on August 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today I’ve been asking myself this question:
What would wholeness say?
I love asking the question; it seems to prompt a feeling of slipping my arms into the sleeves and cloak of wholeness. Wholeness spoke quietly and tenderly just a few things to me -
You are a blessed being.
You are perfect just as you are.
And perhaps if [...]
Posted in Hafiz, Inspiration, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged Poems on August 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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Come close to me,
I will whisper in your ear
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes
around in another form.
For there is so much More to this life
Than you now understand
Observe the wonders as they occur around you
Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry
moving through, and be silent
For the Truth has been Divinely Conceived
Deeply within each of [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Rumi, tagged Inspire, Poems, Thankful on July 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Make me sweet again
fragrant and fresh and wild
and thankful for any small event
~Rumi~
Posted in Love, Poetry, Rumi, Spirituality, tagged God, Inspire, Poems, Surrender on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Today, I recognized
that the jewel-like beauty
is the Presence,
Our loving confusion
the glow in which
watery clay gets
brighter than fire,
the One we call the Friend.
I begged, “Is there a way into you, a ladder?”
“Your head is the ladder,
bring it down under your feet.”
The mind, this globe of awareness,
is a starry Universe that when you push off
with [...]
