you and me and everybody else

the knot of all secrets

Rahmi'den

Şeb mahvolur hemişe ki nemci sehar doğar
Encamı inhizamda mehri zafer doğar
Abisteni safa ve kederdir leyal hep
Gün doğmadan meşimei şebten neler doğar

progress

the ever growing tree,
bound to bend under its own weight

yes and no

to the bonds!

from Hafiz

"Everyone

Is God speaking.

Why not be polite and

Listen to

Him?"

close

into the nights i threw;
my thoughts. then left it all behind.
and took with me to the mornings,
carefree conversations with friends

life

is a day long

sometimes

it is only beauty all there is

preparation

funeral, life is one long

exclusive junkyard or disjunction

common fallacies
personal delusions

bliss

Life is one long wedding day.
Death: the night of marriage.

The Seed Market -From Rumi

Can you find another market like this?
Where,
with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens:

Where,
for one seed
you get a whole wilderness?

For one weak breath,
the divine wind?

You’ve been fearful
Of being absorbed in the ground,
or drawn up by the air.

Now, your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean,
where it came from.

It no longer has the form it had,
but it’s still water.
The essence is the same.

This giving up in not a repenting.
It’s a deep honouring of yourself.

When the ocean comes to you as a lover.
marry, at once, quickly,
for God’s sake.

Don’t postpone it!
Existence has no better gift.

No amount of searching
will find this.

A perfect falcon, for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.

sleepless nights

and breastfeeding the snakes