Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
The Agony And Ecstasy
In the orchard and rose gardenI long to see your face.In the taste of SweetnessI long to kiss your lips.In the shadows of passionI long for your..
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That Lives In Us
If you put your hands on this oar with me,they will never harm another, and they will come to findthey hold everything you want.If you put your hands..
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Soul Receives From Soul
Soul receives from soul that knowledge,therefore not by book nor from tongue.If knowledge of mysteries come afteremptiness of mind, that is..
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Sleep Of The Body The Soul's Awakening
Every night Thou freest our spirits from the bodyAnd its snare, making them pure as rased tablets.Every night spirits are released from this cage,And..
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Shadow And Light Source Both
How does a part of the world leave the world?How does wetness leave water?Dont' try to put out fire by throwing onmore fire! Don't wash a wound with..
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Rise, Lovers
Rise, lovers, that we may go towards heaven; we have seen this world, so let usgo to that world.No, no, for thought these two gardens are beautiful..
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Reason Says Love Says
Reason says, “ I will beguile him with the tongue.”; Love says,“Be silent. I will beguile him with the soul.”The soul says to the heart, “Go, do not..
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Quatrain 1693 (Farsi With English Translation)
ay sâqî, az-ân bâda ke awwal dâd-îriTlê dô dar andâz-o be-y-afzâ shâdîyâ châshniyê az-ân na-bâyast namûdyâ mast-o kharâb kon, chô sar..
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Passion Makes The Old Medicine New:
Passion makes the old medicine new:Passion lops off the bough of weariness.Passion is the elixir that renews:how can there be wearinesswhen passion..
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Out Of Your Love
Out of your love the fire of youth will rise.In the chest, visions of the soul will rise.If you are going to kill me, kill me, it is alright.When the..
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Out Beyond Ideas
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,there is a field. I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass,the world is too full to..
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Our Death Is Our Wedding With Eternity
Our death is our wedding with eternity.What is the secret? 'God is One.'The sunlight splits when entering the windows of the house.This multiplicity..
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Only Breath
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not HinduBuddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religionor cultural system. I am not from the Eastor the West, not out of..
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One Whisper Of The Beloved
Lovers share a sacred decree –to seek the Beloved.They roll head over heels,rushing toward the Beautiful Onelike a torrent of water.In truth..
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One Swaying Being
Love is not condescension, neverthat, nor books, nor any markingon paper, nor what people say ofeach other. Love is a tree withbranches reaching into..
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Ode 911
On the day I die, when I'm beingcarried toward the grave, don't weep.Don't say, ‘He's gone! He's gone!'Death has nothing to do with going away.The..
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Ode 314
Those who don't feel this Lovepulling them like a river,those who don't drink dawnlike a cup of spring wateror take in sunset like supper,those who..
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Ode 3079
We've come again to that knee of seacoastno ocean can reach.Tie together all human intellects.They won't stretch to here.The sky bares its neck so..
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Ode 2357
"Granite and Wineglass"You are granite.I am an empty wineglass.You know what happens when we touch!You laugh like the sun coming up..
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Ode 2039
Go to your pillow and sleep, my son.Leave me alone in the passionOf this death-night.Let the mill turn with your grieving.But stay clear. Don't..
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Ode 1957: An Intellectual
An intellectual is all the time showing off.Lovers dissolve and become bewildered.Intellectuals try not to drown,while the whole purpose of lovesis..
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Ode 1823
I don't get tired of you. Don't grow wearyof being compassionate toward me!All this thirst equipmentmust surely be tired of me,the waterjar, the..
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Ode 1620
There is a passion in methat doesn't long for anythingfrom another human being.I was given something else,a cap to wear in both worlds.It fell off...
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Ode 1373
I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.He..
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O You Who'Ve Gone On Pilgrimage
O you who've gone on pilgrimage -where are you, where, oh where?Here, here is the Beloved!Oh come now, come, oh come!Your friend, he is your..
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