Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Apr 22, 2011
Nov 7, 2010
The Well of Sacred Text
"Don't fall down the well of scripture.
Use the words to keep moving.
Thousands are trapped in the Qur'an
and the Bible, holding to a
rope.
It's not the rope's fault.
Let the wellrope pull you out.
Then let the wellrope go."
-Rumi "The Well of Sacred Text"
Jul 13, 2010
The Declining Day
A woman in the city spun on her heels
She spoke in verses, she made an appeal
She lit a fire in paradise, poured water into hell
Some say veils were lifted, some say palaces fell
We paused for a moment
Then went on our way
Busy and blinded to that declining day
Along the River Tigress ashes were poured
Nine-hundred-Twenty-Two, the year of our Lord
Some would make a pilgrimage, a pilgrimage within
But the world fought a mystic and the world always wins
The moon was split open
The light died away
But something cast shadows on that declining day
She spoke in verses, she made an appeal
She lit a fire in paradise, poured water into hell
Some say veils were lifted, some say palaces fell
We paused for a moment
Then went on our way
Busy and blinded to that declining day
Along the River Tigress ashes were poured
Nine-hundred-Twenty-Two, the year of our Lord
Some would make a pilgrimage, a pilgrimage within
But the world fought a mystic and the world always wins
The moon was split open
The light died away
But something cast shadows on that declining day
May 15, 2010
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