Poems

Untitled XIX Go and let it be known to all lovers: I am the man who gave his heart to love. I turn into a wild […]

Untitled XV My fleeting life has come and gone A wind that blows and passes by. I feel it has been all too brief, Just like […]

Untitled XVI Split my heart, go on, split; See all the things in it. There are those who mock us Among this populace. This road is […]

Untitled XVII I wonder-is anyone here A stranger as forlorn as I? His heart wounded, his eyes tearful A stranger as forlorn as I? Let no […]

Untitled XVIII If you break a true believer’s heart once, It’s no prayer to God-this obeisance, All of the world’s seventy-two nations Cannot wash the dirt […]

Untitled XX Whoever is given the dervish path may his posturing cease and may he shine. May his breath become musk and amber. May whole cities […]

Untitled XXI If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come? In that land are vineyards that yield a […]

Untitled XXII Ask those who know, what’s this soul within the flesh? Reality’s own power. What blood fills these veins? Thought is an errand boy, fear […]

Untitled XXIII We entered the house of realization, we witnessed the body. The whirling skies, the many-layered earth, the seventy-thousand veils, we found in the body. […]

Untitled XXIV The drink sent down from Truth, we drank it, glory be to God. And we sailed over the Ocean of Power, glory be to […]