Poems by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Any Lifetime
... Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master ...
Lovers
... and as if to make the invisible plain, ...
Love is the Water of Life
... To advance toward death without seizing &emsp ...
If you Want What Visible Reality
... but you'll be forgiven for forgetting ...
In the Waters of Purity
... Neither blasphemy, nor faith, nor conviction, nor ...
Because I cannot sleep
... let the bazaar of my existence be destroyed stone by stone ...
Come, Come, Whoever You Are
... Come, even if you have broken your vow ...
Two Kinds of Intelligence
... It's fluid, and it doesn't move from outside to inside ...
Two Friends
... The doubled end of the thread is not what goes through ...
I See so Deeply Within Myself
... Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly ...
This Aloneness
... This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth ...
This we Have Now
... This is the presence that doesn't ...
The springtime of Lovers has come
... that the bird of the soul may rise in flight ...
Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation)
... Or, if you have opened the [jug's] top, you must make (me) drunk ...
Until You've Found Pain
... Until you've found fire inside yourself, like the Friend, ...
