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").

If You Want What Visible Reality

If you want what visible realitycan give, you're an employee.If you want the unseen world,you're not living your truth.Both wishes are foolish,but..

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If You Show Patience

If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in..

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If I Weep

If I weep, if I come with excuses, my beloved puts cotton wool in his ears.Every cruelty which he commits becomes him, every cruelty which he commits..

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If A Tree Could Wander

Oh, if a tree could wanderand move with foot and wings!It would not suffer the axe blowsand not the pain of saws!For would the sun not wanderaway in..

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I Will Beguile Him With The Tongue

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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I Was Dead

i was deadi came alivei was tearsi became laughterall because of lovewhen it arrivedmy temporal lifefrom then onchanged to eternallove said to meyou..

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I Throw It All Away

You play with the great globe of union,you that see everyone so clearlyand cannot be seen. Even universalintelligence gets blurry when it thinksyou..

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I Swear

I swear, since seeing Your face,the whole world is fraud and fantasyThe garden is bewildered as to what is leafor blossom. The distracted birdscan't..

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I See So Deeply Within Myself

I see so deeply within myself.Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly.Why would I want to bother my eyes againNow that I see the world..

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I Have Fallen Into Unconsciousness

I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utterunconsciousness how joyful I am with myself!The darling sewed up my..

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I Have Been Tricked By Flying Too Close

I have been tricked by flying too closeto what I thought I loved.Now the candleflame is out, the wine spilled,and the lovers have withdrawnsomewhere..

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I Have A Fire For You In My Mouth

218I have a fire for you in my mouth, but I have a hundred sealson my tongue.The flames which I have in my heart would make one mouthful of both..

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I Have A Fire For You In My Mouth

218I have a fire for you in my mouth, but I have a hundred sealson my tongue.The flames which I have in my heart would make one mouthful of both..

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I Closed My Eyes To Creation

I closed my eyes to creation when I beheld his beauty, I becameintoxicated with his beauty and bestowed my soul.For the sake of Solomon’s seal I..

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I Am Part Of The Load

I am part of the loadNot rightly balancedI drop off in the grass,like the old Cave-sleepers, to browsewherever I fall.For hundreds of thousands of..

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I Am Only The House Of Your Beloved

'I am only the house of your beloved,not the beloved herself:true love is for the treasure,not for the coffer that contains it.'The real beloved is..

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I Am And I Am Not

I'm drenchedin the floodwhich has yet to comeI'm tied upin the prisonwhich has yet to existNot having playedthe game of chessI'm already the..

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I Am A Sculptor, A Molder Of Form

I am a sculptor, a molder of form.In every moment I shape an idol.But then, in front of you, I melt them downI can rouse a hundred formsand fill them..

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How Long

How long will you think about this painful life?How long will you think about this harmful world?The only thing it can take from you is your..

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Here I Am

All night, a man called ‘Allah'Until his lips were bleeding.Then the Devil said, ‘Hey! Mr Gullible!How comes you've been calling all nightAnd never..

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Ghazal Of Rumi

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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Ghazal 314

You who are not kept anxiously awake for love's sake, sleep on.In restless search for that river, we hurry along;you whose heart such anxiety has not..

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Ghazal 119

I don't needa companion who isnasty sad and sourthe one who islike a gravedark depressing and bittera sweetheart is a mirrora friend a delicious..

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Every Day I Bear A Burden

Every day I bear a burden, and I bear this calamity for a purpose:I bear the discomfort of cold and December's snow in hope of spring.Before the..

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Draw It Now From Eternity's Jar

Come, come, awaken all true drunkards!Pour the wine that is Life itself!O cupbearer of the Eternal Wine,Draw it now from Eternity's Jar!This wine..

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