Thursday, June 26, 2008

come!


Come, Come

whoever you are,

Wanderer, worshipper,

lover of leaving,

It doesn't matter!

Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Come, even if you have broken your vow

a thousand times.

Come, yet again,

come, come.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

love & reputation



"Love and reputation, brother,are not in harmony.

don’t stand at the door of reputation, if you are a lover."
mevlana rumi

Monday, June 9, 2008

Love has nothing to do


Love has nothing to do with
the five senses and the six directions:
its goal is only to experience
the attraction exerted by the Beloved.
Afterwards, perhaps, permission
will come from God:
the secrets that ought to be told will be told
with an eloquence nearer to the understanding
that these subtle confusing allusions.
The secret is partner with none
but the knower of the secret:
in the skeptic's ear
the secret is no secret at all.

Friday, June 6, 2008

All through eternity..


All through eternity
Beauty unveils His exquisite form
in the solitude of nothingness;
He holds a mirror to His Face
and beholds His own beauty.
he is the knower and the known,
the seer and the seen;
No eye but His own
has ever looked upon this Universe.

His every quality finds an expression:
Eternity becomes the verdant field of Time and Space;
Love, the life-giving garden of this world.
Every branch and leaf and fruit
Reveals an aspect of His perfection-
They cypress give hint of His majesty,
The rose gives tidings of His beauty.

Whenever Beauty looks,
Love is also there;
Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek
Love lights Her fire from that flame.
When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night
Love comes and finds a heart
entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.

They have together
since the beginning of time-
Side by side, step by step.