Rumi and Other Mystical Poets List

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

i carry your heart with me - E.E. Cummings

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. — e. e. cummings i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Our First Resurrection Story

Our First Resurrection Story: The Goddess Inanna, The Queen of Heaven, The Mother of All, is hung on a hook, and dies. She is in a dark cave-like Realm, and she is dead, for three days, but then Inanna is resurrected She ascends, like the sun, to take her rightful place in Heaven. Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Every morning the world is created by Mary Oliver

Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun the heaped ashes of the night turn into leaves again and fasten themselves to the high branches --- and the ponds appear like black cloth on which are painted islands of summer lilies. If it is your nature to be happy you will swim away along the soft trails for hours, your imagination alighting everywhere. And if your spirit carries within it the thorn that is heavier than lead --- if it's all you can do to keep on trudging... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 31, 2010

St John of the Cross

You let my sufferings ce a se, for the re w a s no one who could cure the m. Now let my eyes behold your f a ce for you a re our only love. My spirit’s body is r is ing ne a r – th is earth a bow th a t shot me; now lift me into your a rms a s something precious th a t you dropped. My only suffering, from th is d a y forth, will be your divine be a uty, a nd you will const a ntly cure my blessed sight e a ch time you bring your f a ce so ne a r to mine a nd c a ll me bride. Do not be s a d, my... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Tukam: A Good Poem is like ...

A good poem is like finding a hole in the palace wall-- Never know what you might see. Tukaram Love Poems From God Twelve Sacred Voices From The East and West Translations by Daniel Ladinsky Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Here soar

Here soar, Not with wings, But with your moving hands and feet And sweating brows- Standing by your Beloved's side Reaching out to comfort this world With your cup of solace Drawn from your vast reservoir of Truth. Here soar Not with your eyes and senses That turn their backs On the earth's sweet stumbling dance Which needs you. Here love, O here love, With your mouth tender and open upon your lover, And with your heart on duty To the souls of rivers, children, forest animals, All the shy... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Hafiz It Happens All the Time in Heaven

It Happens All the time in Heaven It happens all the time in heaven And some day It will begin to happen Again on earth- That men and women who are married, And men and men who are Lovers, And women and women Who give each other Light, Often will get down on their knees And while so tenderly Holding their lover's hand, With tears in their eyes, Will sincerely speak, saying, "My dear, How can I be more loving to you; How can I be more kind?" - Hafiz Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Just Sit There - Hafiz

Just Sit There Just sit there right now. Don't do a thing. Just rest. For your separation from God Is the hardest work in this world. Let me bring you trays of food And something That you like to drink. You can use my soft words As a cushion For your Head. Hafiz (Translated by Daniel Ladinsky) Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Hafiz - TAKE ONE OF MY TEARS

TAKE ONE OF MY TEARS Throw it into the ocean and watch the salt in the wounds Of this earth and men begin to disappear. Take one of my tears And cradle it in your palm Mount a great white camel And carry my love into every desert, Paying homage to every Prophet who has ever walked in our world. O take one of my tears And stop weeping only for sadness, for there is so much More to this life Than you now understand. Take one of my tears And become like the Happy One, O like the Happy One-- Who now... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

One Song - Rumi

One Song What is praised is One, so the praise is One too, many jugs emptied into a huge basin. All religions, all this singing, is one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun's light looks a little diffferent on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it's all one light. We have borrowed these clothes, these time and place personalities, from a light, and when we praise, we're pouring them back in. - Rumi Sign in to see full entry.

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