Poetry is to Music as Lyric is to Soul: The Greatest Poet in the World

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Monday, September 4, 2006

The Greatest Poet in the World

Rumi Lover of Shamsuddin, is recognized by many as the greatest mystical poet yet to appear on earth. For the next few days I will write poems inspired by this great sage. These spiritual window-shoppers, who idly ask, 'How much is that?' Oh, I'm just looking. They handle a hundred items and put them down, shadows with no capital. What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping. But these walk into a shop, and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment, in that shop. Where did you go?... Sign in to see full entry.

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