Random Works of Rumi

Quietness
Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an ax to the prison wall.
Escape. Walk out
like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
You're covered with thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,
and be quiet. Quietness is the surest
sign that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.

The speechless full mood comes out now.







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You've so distracted me,
your absence fans my love.
Don't ask how.

Then you come near.
"Do not..." I say, and
"Do not..." you answer.

Don't ask why
this delights me.








This Market
Can you find another market like this?
Where, with your one rose

you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Where, for one see you get

a whole wilderness? For one weak
breath, the divine wind?








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I hear nothing in my ear but your voice.
Heart has plundered mind of its eloquence.

Love writes a transparent calligraphy, so on
the empty page my soul can read and recollect.







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Pale sunlight,
pale the wall.

Love moves away.
The light changes.

I need more grace
than I thought.










Rumi is an amazing 13th-century Persian-born [present-day Afghanistan] poet. I love his poems!! He is famous for writing love poems, which I am typically not a fan of. But I love his stuff.