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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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Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Non-poem to a Baul

Non-poem to a Baul


so you speak

of a different wine,


you say there is

nothing

like it

in this world,


naturally, I suspect

you speak of

something divine -

this intoxication

that makes you sway;


but when you pluck the dotara

and cast your voice

at the skies,

like a gambler of the stars,


does the different wine

lose perfume?


must you retreat

to the snaky

legend

of marijuana

in your backyard?



5 comments:

ishani said...

how beautifully true :)

Deeptesh said...

Pure n homogeneous.....searching and seeking for higher truths!A purer form of intoxication....liked the unusual calmness in the lines..words could have never created silence better!

Prince Kazarelth said...

For all their ganja and sex, they do cross the stream of sin by swimming, instead of using a boat like the rest of us.

arachnid said...

Wow! That was simple, blatant, honest and poetic all at the same time.

Shahwar Kibria said...

"does the different wine lose perfume?
must you retreat to the snaky legend of marijuana in your backyard?"

!!!

this was pure genius!