all about RUMI!!! NOTHING BUT RUMI POETRY

Notice how each particle moves.

Notice how everyone has just arrived here

            from a journey.

Notice how each wants a different food.

Notice how the stars as the sun comes up,

            and how all streams stream toward the ocean.

Look at the chefs preparing special plates

            for everyone, according to what they need.

Look at this cup that can hold the ocean.

Look at those who see the face.

Look through the Shams’ eyes

            into the water that is

            entirely jewels.

UNTITILED

Dance, when you’re broken open.

Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.

Dance in the middle of the fighting.

Dance in you blood.

Dance, when you’re perfectly free.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,

absentminded.  Someone sober

will worry about thing going badly.

Let the lover be.

UNTITLED

The wine we really drink is our own blood.

Our bodies ferment in these barrels.

We give everything for a glass of this.

We give our minds for a sip.

There is a community of the spirit.

Join it, and feel the delight

of walking in the noisy street,

and being the noise.

Drink all your passion

and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes

to see with the other eye.

Open your hands,

if you want to be held.

Sit down in this circle.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel

the shepherd’s love filling you.

At night, your beloved wanders.

Don’t accept consolations.

You moan, “She left me.” “He left me.”

Twenty more will come.

Be empty of worrying.

Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison

when the door is so wide open?

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.

Live in silence.

Flow down and down in always

widening rings of being.