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Rumi Short Poems
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along.
- Rumi, tr, by Coleman Barks
The fault is in the blamer
Spirit sees nothing to criticize
- Rumi, 'The Wisdom of Rumi'
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Rumi (1207 – 1273) Rumi known as Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi and also popularly known as Mevlana ( was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Born in Persia, he spent much of his life in modern day Turkey. He is renowned as a mystical poet, who expressed the ecstasy and paradox of divine love. |
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Only You
Only you
I choose among the entire world.
Is it fair of you
letting me be unhappy?
My heart is a pen in your hand.
It is all up to you
to write me happy or sad.
I see only what you reveal
and live as you say.
All my feelings have the color
you desire to paint.
From the beginning to the end,
no one but you.
Please make my future
better than the past.
When you hide I change
to a Godless person,
and when you appear,
I find my faith.
Don't expect to find
any more in me
than what you give.
Don't search for
hidden pockets because
I've shown you that
all I have is all you gave.
- Rumi
Trans. Nader Khalili
External Links
Photos Tejvan and Unmesh, Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries