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You Personify God’s Message by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

You personify God’s message. You reflect the King’s face. There is nothing in the universe that you are not Everything you want, look for it within yourself- you are that. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate repository of […]

Who Says Words With My Mouth? by Rumi

Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober. Meanwhile, I’m like […]

When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb, should you come to visit me, I will come forth with speed. You are for me the blast of the trumpet and the resurrection, so what shall I do? Dead or living, wherever you are, there am I. Without your lip I am a frozen and […]

Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful; it is out of very jealousy and proper pride that we entered the veil. On the day when we cast of the body’s veil from the soul, you will see that we are the envy of despair of man and the Polestars. Wash your face and […]

We Are As The Flute by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee. We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat: our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely! Who are we, O Thou […]

Until You’ve Found Pain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Until you’ve found pain, you won’t reach the cure Until you’ve given up life, you won’t unite with the supreme soul Until you’ve found fire inside yourself, like the Friend, You won’t reach the spring of life, like Khezr. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic […]

Two Kinds of Intelligence by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences. With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard […]

At the Twilight by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky; Then it landed on earth to look at me. Like a hawk stealing a bird at the time of prey; That moon stole me and rushed back into the sky. I looked at myself, I did not see me anymore; For in that moon, my body […]

This we Have Now by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

This we have now is not imagination. This is not grief or joy. Not a judging state, or an elation, or sadness. Those come and go. This is the presence that doesn’t. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate […]

This Aloneness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives. This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth. To be one with the truth for just a moment, Is worth more than the world and life itself. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic […]

There is a Way by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens. With wandering talk it closes. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate repository of world poetry. Poetry Monster — the multilingual library of […]

There is a life-force within your soul by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveler, if you are in search of That Don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek That. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems […]

There is a Community of Spirit by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by […]

There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled. In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be stitched. O, you who are ignorant of endurance and the burning fire of love– Love comes of its own free will, it can’t be learned in any school. ————— The […]

There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

The Freshness by Rumi

you are more beautiful. And the snow brings me even closer to your lips. The inner secret, that which was never born, you are that freshness, and I am with you now. I can’t explain the goings, or the comings. You enter suddenly, and I am nowhere again. Inside the majesty.

The Breeze at Dawn by Jelaluddin Rumi

Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, […]

The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain, to burst our bonds and become estranged from all; To yield up our souls, no more to bear the disgrace of such a soul, to set fire to our house, and run like fire to the tavern. Until we ferment, we shall not […]

The Taste of Morning by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Time’s knife slides from the sheath, as fish from where it swims. Being closer and closer is the desire of the body. Don’t wish for union! There’s a closeness beyond that. Why would God want a second God? Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting. Love is the […]

The Seed Market by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? Where, for one seed get a whole wilderness? For one weak breath, a divine wind? You’ve been fearful of being absorbed in the ground, or drawn up by the air. Now, your waterbead lets go and […]

The beauty of the heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

The beauty of the heart is the lasting beauty: its lips give to drink of the water of life. Truly it is the water, that which pours, and the one who drinks. All three become one when your talisman is shattered. That oneness you can’t know by reasoning. ————— The End And that’s the End […]

A Stone I died by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

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. Why should I fear? What have I lost by death? ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry […]

Soul Receives From Soul by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate repository of world poetry. Poetry […]

Sleep of the Body the Soul’s Awakening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Every night Thou freest our spirits from the body And its snare, making them pure as rased tablets. Every night spirits are released from this cage, And set free, neither lording it nor lorded over. At night prisoners are unaware of their prison, At night kings are unaware of their majesty. Then there is no […]

Passion makes the old medicine new: by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Passion makes the old medicine new: Passion lops off the bough of weariness. Passion is the elixir that renews: how can there be weariness when passion is present? Oh, don’t sigh heavily from fatigue: seek passion, seek passion, seek passion! ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by […]

Not Intrigued With Evening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

What the material world values does not shine the same in the truth of the soul. You have been interested in your shadow. Look instead directly at the sun. What can we know by just watching the time-and-space shapes of each other? Someone half awake in the night sees imaginary dangers; the morning star rises; […]

Let go of your worries by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between […]

Late, by Myself by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I’m already under and living with the ocean ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the […]

Intrigued with Evening by Jelaluddin Rumi

not shine the same in the truth of the soul. You have been interested in your shadow. Look instead directly at the sun. What can we know by just watching the time-and-space shapes of each other? Someone half awake in the night sees imaginary dangers; the morning star rises; the horizon grows defined; people become […]

In the Waters of Purity by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

In the waters of purity, I melted like salt Neither blasphemy, nor faith, nor conviction, nor doubt remained. In the center of my heart a star has appeared And all the seven heavens have become lost in it. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and […]

In the End by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

In the end, the mountains of imagination were nothing but a house. And this grand life of mine was nothing but an excuse. You’ve been hearing my story so patiently for a lifetime Now hear this: it was nothing but a fairy tale. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, […]

If A Tree Could Wander by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Oh, if a tree could wander and move with foot and wings! It would not suffer the axe blows and not the pain of saws! For would the sun not wander away in every night ? How could at ev’ry morning the world be lighted up? And if the ocean’s water would not rise to […]

I See so Deeply Within Myself by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

I see so deeply within myself. Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly. Why would I want to bother my eyes again Now that I see the world through His eyes? ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the […]

I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

I closed my eyes to creation when I beheld his beauty, I became intoxicated with his beauty and bestowed my soul. For the sake of Solomon’s seal I became wax in all my body, and in order to become illumined I rubbed my wax. I saw his opinion and cast away my own twisted opinion; […]

I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

I Am Part Of The Load by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

I am part of the load Not rightly balanced I drop off in the grass, like the old Cave-sleepers, to browse wherever I fall. For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate […]

I Am Part Of The Load by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

How Long by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

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 body. Don’t say all this rubbish and stop thinking. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. […]

Did I Not Say To You by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?” Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand years from me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal. Did I not say to […]

Birdsong by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Birdsong brings relief to my longing I’m just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please universal soul, practice some song or something through me! ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic and subject. Poetry Monster — the ultimate repository of world poetry. […]