Poetry is to Music as Lyric is to Soul for Monday, October 30, 2006

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Monday, October 30, 2006

The way home - Rumi

You who have invited me to your house! lead the way! I am so bewildered, I do not know the way home. You who have enchanted the city and the village alike! Where is the house? show it to me! I do not know the way home. How do you expect knowledge, of the one who is not even alive? Come forward! do not hurt me anymore! I do not know the way home. O glorious musician! play your drum with your hands Play this tune to my heart's content: I do not know the way home. (Divan 1465:1-3, 6) Translated by... Sign in to see full entry.

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Apologies, my blogging friends ... I ran out of time

Yesterday, my intention was to write a poem in response to Rumi's inspired words, but I ran out of time and had to get to work (raising money for the Dems). If you look back now, I am creating the poem as an edit to the entry. It may or may not be done... you decide. Sign in to see full entry.

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A New Rule Rumi

A New Rule It is the rule with drunkards to fall upon each other, to quarrel, become violent, and make a scene. The lover is even worse than a drunkard. I will tell you what love is: to enter a mine of gold. And what is that gold? The lover is a king above all kings, unafraid of death, not at all interested in a golden crown. The dervish has a pearl concealed under his patched cloak. Why should he go begging door to door? Last night that moon came along, drunk, dropping clothes in the street.... Sign in to see full entry.

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