The sky is filled with stars and the sun…
The sky is filled with stars and the sun,
this earth with life vibrant.
Amongst it all I too have received a home,
and out of this wonder my song is born.
In the rhythm of ebb and tide of eternal time,
the world floats.
Its pull enters my blood stream,
that through my [...]
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Love Song
Rainer Maria Rilke
How can I keep my soul in me, so that
it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise
it high enough, past you, to other things?
I would like to shelter it, among remote
lost objects, in some dark and silent place
that doesn’t resonate when your depths resound.
Yet everything that touches us, me and you,
takes [...]
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second [...]
To Love is to reach God.
Never will a Lover’s chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover’s robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover’s body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to reach God.
~Rumi
Translated by: Shahram Shiva
http://rumi.net
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.
Open your hands,
if you want to be held.
Sit down in this circle.
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd’s love filling you.
At night, [...]
Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day,
and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in.
Forget them as [...]
In No Strange Land
The kingdom of God is within you
O world invisible, we view thee,
O world intangible, we touch thee,
O world unknowable, we know thee,
Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!
Does the fish soar to find the ocean,
The eagle plunge to find the air–
That we ask of the stars in motion
If they have rumor of thee there?
Not where [...]
I have added a number of poems from Hydeh Aubon
on to the Allspirit website. You can read them here:
http://allspirit.co.uk/hydeh-aubon.html
My Spring
Yes, there is someplace
a deep place,
a lonely place.
Unreachable, unexplainable,
and mysterious in me that
longs for you.
When the air feels still
and a cool soothing breeze
suddenly brushes my face,
I know, in my heart, that
you [...]
Sharham Shiva is one of my favourite translators of
Rumi, not least because when I emailed and asked
if I could share some of his work on Allspirit (many
years ago now) he was very gracious and when I
thanked him, he told me, no, no, thank *you*
for sharing the poetry… This one made me smile…
I sipped some of [...]
Sequoia
When you stand before a colossal wall
of reddish brown
a mass of tree bigger than any you’ve ever seen-
bigger than any living thing,
bigger than houses,
far bigger than ourselves,
It becomes more than
an experience of human and tree.
When you listen to the wind curl through rounded
needle clusters and gaze up 100 feet
to the lowest branch,
awestruck eyes [...]
