Poetry is to Music as Lyric is to Soul for Tuesday, September 26, 2006

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Rumi - I have been tricked by flying too close

I have been tricked by flying too close to what I thought I loved. Now the candleflame is out, the wine spilled, and the lovers have withdrawn somewhere beyond my squinting. The amount I thought I'd won, I've lost. My prayers becomes bitter and all about blindness. How wonderful it was to be for a while with those who surrender. Others only turn their faces on way, then another, like pigeon in flight. I have known pigeons who fly in a nowhere, and birds that eat grainlessness, and tailor who sew... Sign in to see full entry.

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