Poetry is to Music as Lyric is to Soul: The Wild Wandering Qalandars

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Monday, October 2, 2006

The Wild Wandering Qalandars

There are wild wandering Sufis called qalandars, who are constantly tickled with life. It's scandalous how they love and laugh at any small event. People gossip about them, and that makes them deft in their cunning, but really a great God-wrestling goes on inside these wanderers, a flood of sunlight that's drunk with the whole thing... - Rumi Qalandar Bums The Bums sat laughing As passersby Gave them wide birth. These saints of the street Laughed and sang And hustled loose change. The local... Sign in to see full entry.

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