Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems

A moment of happiness,
you and I sitting on the verandah,
apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.
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Be with those who help your being.
Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.
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Because I cannot sleep
I make music at night.
I am troubled by the one
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Birdsong brings relief
to my longing
I'm just as ecstatic as they are,
but with nothing to say!
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A stone I died and rose again a plant;
A plant I died and rose an animal;
I died an animal and was born a man.
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Any soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.
From that water of life he is in a state of elation.
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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 fattener-up of all who are lean, I drag this so emaciated body;
Though they expel me from two hundred cities, I bear it for the sake of the love of a prince;
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All through eternity
Beauty unveils His exquisite form
in the solitude of nothingness;
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At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky;
Then it landed on earth to look at me.
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Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
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