My choice of favourite poems. One most days, usually illustrated with a relevant photograph.
Monday, February 06, 2012
Rumi Divan
Come, come, O my beloved, O my beloved.
Enter, enter busy yourself with me, with me.
You are, you are, my rose garden, my rose garden
Reveal, reveal my secrets, my secrets.
Wherever I go, you go with me, you go with me,
in every stage you are the confidant, you are the confidant.
Day and night you are my companion, you are my companion.
For my trap you are a befitting gazelle, a befitting gazelle.
O my candle! you are so bright, so bright. In my house,
you are like a window, like a window.
When the arrow of disaster targets me, targets me,
you are both armor and a shield, and a shield.
(Divan 1785:3-4)
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