Best Masnavi Poems
Below are the all-time best Masnavi poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of masnavi poems written by PoetrySoup members
The VoiceThe Voice…
On a dark night that was darker than my pain,
nothing was there for me except to complain.
I hid myself...
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Categories:
imagination, journey, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Masnavi
PlaygroundPlayground…
Playground…
I am making decisions every morning,
None of them comes along with any warning.
To go right or to go left, which one is right?
Living in darkness...
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Categories:
age, allusion, anger,
Form:
Masnavi
MotherlandMotherland…
I am a desert, barren and hot.
Hoping for the rain, which I forgot.
Once, I was green, golden, and bright.
Nightingales singing night after night.
My fresh breeze...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, longing, peace,
Form:
Masnavi
The Life IsThe Life Is …
The Life Is …
When I was young, there was no pain,
The only pain was to complain.
When I was young, I did not...
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Categories:
allusion, angst, life, old,
Form:
Masnavi
Essence of my PoetryHow do I praise your influence, oh Rumi?
For you are the essence of my poetry.
Poet's quote.
I was lost in mournful melodies of birds,
until death...
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Categories:
appreciation, life, philosophy,
Form:
Masnavi
Quote Me RumiQUOTE ME RUMI
Plant me in the garden next door.
I want to be a man no more.
I don’t want to have pain in me.
...
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Categories:
anger, conflict, imagination, pain,
Form:
Masnavi
RegretRegret….
I flew once in a field full of flowers,
a field that was kissed by April showers.
I tasted all the jasmines, as they were new,
I did...
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Categories:
allusion, fantasy, imagination, love,
Form:
Masnavi
Crystal BowlCrystal Bowl
A gold fish swimming round and round.
His world of glass is all surround.
Round and round, day and night
...
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Categories:
inspiration, journey, life, love,
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Masnavi
SamaraSamara...
Brilliant sunshine, silvery cloud;
looked down and found me lost in a crowd.
Some nights, I flew and followed the breeze.
Some nights, my world turned into a...
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Categories:
allusion, life, metaphor, seasons,
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Masnavi
The Watch MakerThe Watch Maker…
Let me be, leave me alone, I'm Him, I'm alone.
I'm in pain; let me be, let me be, on my own.
All the...
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Categories:
creation, fantasy, love,
Form:
Masnavi
OnenessOneness…
I was thinking of my good old grandpa,
I loved him so much and called him Bababa.
He was my favorite person in my life,
He...
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Categories:
allusion, muse, spiritual,
Form:
Masnavi
Double J - Just JetsamMarred and minced remnants pile high in a storm’s swarm
Yesterdays, hardened-soft, surface where sea’s warm…
Flotsam found, lays tales around, in frayed traces
Another shattered shell whimpers...
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Categories:
allusion,
Form:
Masnavi
Cenobite Muse
My muse keeps pestering like a cenobite,
chewing my brain like a hungry parasite.
Pressuring the ink to bleed like acid rain,
catharsis to release perpetual...
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Categories:
muse,
Form:
Masnavi
Cat and MouseCat and mouse
Within a garden somewhere out there,
butterflies were dancing free from care.
Thousands of flowers loving the dance,
love the lovers and loving romance.
A lot of...
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Categories:
death, life, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Masnavi
The BubbleThe bubble
The bubble
I’m a bubble, a bubble of air;
Deep in the ocean, fully aware.
Darkness my cover, cold and sad;
Covering my soul, making me...
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Categories:
adventure, loneliness, love, self,
Form:
Masnavi