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").

My Burning Heart

My heart is burning with loveAll can see this flameMy heart is pulsing with passionlike waves on an oceanmy friends have become strangersand I'm..

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Moving Water

When you do things from your soul, you feel a rivermoving in you, a joy.When actions come from another section, the feelingdisappears.Don't let..

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Masnawi

In the prologue to the Masnavi Rumi hailed Love and its sweet madness that heals all infirmities, and he exhorted the reader to burst the bonds to..

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Lovers

O lovers, lovers it is timeto set out from the world.I hear a drum in my soul's earcoming from the depths of the stars.Our camel driver is at..

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Love Makes

Love makes bitter things sweet.Love turns copper to gold.With love dregs settle into clarity.With love suffering ceases.Love brings the dead back to..

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Love Is The Water Of Life

Everything other than love for the most beautiful Godthough it be sugar- eating.What is agony of the spirit?To advance toward death without..

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Love Is The Cure

for your pain will keep giving birth to more painuntil your eyes constantly exhale loveas effortlessly as your body yields its scent.'

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love, secrecy, devotion, divine

Love is reckless; not reason.Reason seeks a profit.Love comes on strong,consuming herself, unabashed.Yet, in the midst of suffering,Love proceeds..

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Love Has Nothing To Do With The Five Senses

Love has nothing to do withthe five senses and the six directions:its goal is only to experiencethe attraction exerted by the Beloved.Afterwards..

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Love And Imagination

Love and imagination are magiciansWho create an image of the Beloved in your mindWith which you share your secret intimate moments.This apparition is..

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Love

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?What do you know of Love except the name?Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,and..

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Lord, What A Beloved Is Mine!

Lord, what a Beloved is mine! I have a sweet quarry; I possessin my breast a hundred meadows from his reed.When in anger the messenger comes and..

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Like This

If anyone asks youhow the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wantingwill look, lift your faceand say,Like this.When someone mentions the..

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Light Up The Fire

I gaze into the heart, lowly it may be,Thought the words be higher still.For the heart is all the substance,The speech an accident.How many phrases..

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Light Breeze

As regards feeling pain, like a hand cut in battle,consider the body a robe you wear.When you meet someone you love, do you kiss their clothes?..

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Let Me Be Mad

O incomparable Giver of life, cut reason loose at last!Let it wander grey-eyed from vanity to vanity.Shatter open my skull, pour in it the wine of..

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Let Go Of Your Worries

Let go of your worriesand be completely clear-hearted,like the face of a mirrorthat contains no images.If you want a clear mirror,behold yourselfand..

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Late, By Myself

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,no light and no land anywhere,cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface,yet I'm already underand..

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Last Night You Left Me And Slept

Last night you left me and sleptyour own deep sleep. Tonight you turnand turn. I say,'You and I will be togethertill the universe dissolves.'You..

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Last Night My Soul Cried O Exalted Sphere Of Heaven

Last night my soul cried, “O exalted sphere of Heaven, you hang indeed inverted,with flames in your belly.“Without sin and crime, eternally revolving..

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Laila And The Khalifa.

The Khalifa said to Laila, "Art thou really sheFor whom Majnun lost his head and went distracted?Thou art not fairer than many other fair ones."She..

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In The Waters Of Purity

In the waters of purity, I melted like saltNeither blasphemy, nor faith, nor conviction, nordoubt remained.In the center of my heart a star has..

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In The End

In the end, the mountains of imagination were nothingbut a house.And this grand life of mine was nothing but an excuse.You've been hearing my story..

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In The Arc Of Your Mallet

Don't go anywhere without me.Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me,or on the ground, in this world or that world,without my being in its..

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In Love

In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness,nothing else exists.There is no reason for living except for giving one's life.I said, 'First I..

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