Hej Septemberbrud,
Mystikern Jelaluddin Rumi levde på 1200-talet, men hans lekfulla, extatiska poesi är tidlös. Nu känner jag mig lite blyg....jag älskar Rumi, men jag vet att det inte är poesi för alla.
Hursomhelst, här är några axplock:
You and I have spoken all these words,
but for the way we have to go, words are no preparation.
There?s no getting ready,
other than grace.
My faults have stayed hidden:
one might call that a preparation!
I have one small drop
of knowing in my soul
Let it dissolve in your ocean.
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Out beyond ideas of
wrong-doing and right-doing
there is a field
I?ll meet you there
When the soul lies down in that grass
The world is too full to talk about
Ideas, language, even the phrase
each other
Doesn?t make any sense
This moment
This love
Comes to rest in me,
Many beings in one being
In one wheat-grain
A thousand sheaf stacks
Inside the needles eye
A turning night of stars
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What was it 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.
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This is how I would die into the love I have for you:
As a piece of cloud dissolve in sunlight
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In the early morning hour
Just before dawn
Lover and Beloved
Wake
And take a drink of water
She asks, ?do you love me or yourself more?
Really, tell the absolute truth.?
He says, ?There?s nothing left of me.
I?m like a ruby held up to the sun."
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness?
This is how Hallaj said, I am God
And told the truth!
The ruby and the sunrise are one.
Be courageous and discipline yourself.
Completely become hearing and ear
And wear this sun-ruby as an earring
Work. Keep digging your well.
Don?t think about getting off from work.
Water is there somewhere.
Submit to a daily practice.
Your loyalty to that
Is a ring on the door.
Keep knocking, and the joy inside
Will eventually open a window
A see who?s there