Outerspace
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!
Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?
We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.
We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.
Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!
Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.
~ Rumi, Masnavi Book I- 599-607
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16 comments:
you know it all inam...dont you!!??
Neat like a surreal speck of silence.This appeals to the senses.....and somewhere the words get lost in the 'purgatory' of your thin blue silence.amazing!!
wow! that one hit me real hard!
Can I be your Ezra Pound? ... Then, for your entire poem, Only Keep:
"Noiseless birds
Flying
In shock "
Brilliant Lines.
And if you indeed consider the edit, it will sound like one other brilliant poem I'm extremely fond of:
Langston Hughes' poem "Suicide's Note"
The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
one should know where to stop when begun..you know it,damn!!..you know it all!!
You've heard "Voices under sleep"
"The heaving of earth at nightfall,restless"
:)
i think you are very nice irrespective of the stuff u write.....:P
this is beautiful inam. beautiful!
"noiseless birds flying in shock"
THE showstopper!!!
image-ing noise...the ULTIMATE synaesthetic indulgence...,
nailing it hard...as ever!
keep going!
haunting. haunts me.
heyy, this is a fabulous poem!
THIS POEM IS LIKE A FLIGHT OF STEPS LEADING TO AN OLD DOOR THAT WILL BE CLOSED FOREVER...THE LINES WILL GO UP AND DOWN, COME AND GO, UNGLIMPSED!
Having just read through some of your work, this is my favourite. Potent, terse, and focused. A very good job.
Stark, minimalistic but yet capable of raising myriad visions.
Great stuff...
Awesome!
One of your best. Truly so.
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