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There Is A Candle In Your Heart

There is a candle in your heart,
      ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul,
      ready to be filled.

You feel it, don’t you?
You feel the separation
      from the Beloved.

Invite Him to fill you up,
      embrace the fire.

Remind those who tell you otherwise that 
      Love
      comes to you of its own accord, 
      and the yearning for it 
      cannot be learned in any school.
 
From: ‘Hush Don’t Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi’
Translated by Sharam Shiva
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Written by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi |

I Was Dead

i was dead i came alive i was tears i became laughter

all because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal

love said to me you are not crazy enough you don’t fit this house

i went and became crazy crazy enough to be in chains

love said you are not intoxicated enough you don’t fit the group

i went and got drunk drunk enough to overflow with light-headedness

love said you are still too clever filled with imagination and skepticism

i went and became gullible and in fright pulled away from it all

love said you are a candle attracting everyone gathering every one around you

i am no more a candle spreading light i gather no more crowds and like smoke i am all scattered now

love said you are a teacher you are a head and for everyone you are a leader

i am no more not a teacher not a leader just a servant to your wishes

love said you already have your own wings i will not give you more feathers

and then my heart pulled itself apart and filled to the brim with a new light overflowed with fresh life

now even the heavens are thankful that because of love i have become the giver of light

- Rumi.
Ghazal number 1393, translated by Nader Khalili

Written by Dejan Stojanovic |

Ghazal of Love

I love the new sounds of love; 
Only the new cures an old love.


Watching the love making of waves and the shore
I desire to be the wave of love.
 

There is no real hate in quarrels,
Only stupidity and lack of love.


The Sun shone upon me
And I shone upon the world with love.


I fly through memory
To find a newborn love.


Sing to me sea, sing to me sky
And the hiding world sprang out from love.

Written by Heather McHugh |

Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun

 Too volatile, am I?too voluble?too much a word-person?
I blame the soup:I'm a primordially
stirred person.


Two pronouns and a vehicle was Icarus with wings.

The apparatus of his selves made an ab-
surd person.


The sound I make is sympathy's:sad dogs are tied afar.

But howling I become an ever more un-
heard person.


I need a hundred more of you to make a likelihood.

The mirror's not convincing-- that at-best in-
ferred person.


As time's revealing gets revolting, I start looking out.

Look in and what you see is one unholy
blurred person.


The only cure for birth one doesn't love to contemplate.

Better to be an unsung song, an unoc-
curred person.


McHugh, you'll be the death of me -- each self and second studied!
Addressing you like this, I'm halfway to the
third person.

Written by Tanwir Phool |

Haiku

Khail maiN haiN mashGhool
BachchoN ke dil ki dhaRkan
ChiRyaa , titli , phool

(Poet : Tanwir Phool)

English translation
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They are busy in playing.

Children are very fond of
Sparrow , butterfly and flower

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