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  • Description of Love
    A true lover is proved such by his pain of heart;
    No sickness is there like sickness of heart.
    29 lines, 3 comments
  • Because I cannot sleep
    Because I cannot sleep
    I make music at night.
    30 lines, 10 comments
  • Love has nothing to do with the five senses
    Love has nothing to do with
    the five senses and the six directions:
    12 lines, 3 comments
  • This Will Not Win Him
    Reason says,
    I will win him with my eloquence.
    63 lines
  • Untitled
    The minute I heard my first love story
    I started looking for you, not knowing
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • Ghazal of Rumi
    I was dead, then alive.
    Weeping, then laughing.
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • Like This
        If anyone asks you
        how the perfect satisfaction
    82 lines
  • Love is the Water of Life
        Everything other than love for the most beautiful           
        God
    10 lines
  • Zero Circle
    Be helpless, dumbfounded,
    Unable to say yes or no.
    20 lines, 4 comments
  • The Guest House
    This being human is a guest house.
    Every morning a new arrival.
    21 lines, 41 comments
  • Reason says love says
    Reason says, “ I will beguile him with the tongue.”; Love says,
    “Be silent. I will beguile him with the soul.”
    30 lines
  • Lord, what a Beloved is mine!
    Lord, what a Beloved is mine! I have a sweet quarry; I possess
    26 lines
  • Did I Not Say To You
    in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?”
    20 lines
  • Bring Wine
    Bring wine, for I am suffering crop sickness from the vintage;
    God has seized me, and I am thus held fast.
    37 lines, 1 comment
  • Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful
    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
    14 lines
  • What Hidden Sweetness Is There
    What hidden sweetness there is in this emptiness of the belly
    23 lines
  • Rise, lovers
    Rise, lovers, that we may go towards heaven; we have seen this world, so let us go to that world.
    No, no, for thought these two garde
    14 lines
  • Every day I bear a burden
    Every day I bear a burden, and I bear this calamity for a purpose:
    I bear the discomfort of cold and December's snow in hope of spring.
    13 lines, 2 comments
  • If I weep
    The cure of the ache of my heart is the ache for him; how shall I not surrender my heart to his ache?
    12 lines, 3 comments
  • I Have a Fire for You in my Mouth
    I have a fire for you in my mouth, but I have a hundred seals on my tongue.
    19 lines, 4 comments
  • I have fallen into unconsciousness
    I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utter unconsciousness how joyful I am with myself!
    The darling sewed up my eyes so
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • Who makes these changes?
    Who makes these changes?
    I shoot an arrow right.
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • Ode 1373
    I was dead, then alive.
    Weeping, then laughing.
    65 lines
  • Your grief....
    Your grief for what youve lost holds a mirror
    up to where you're bravely working.
    12 lines
  • Ghazal 314
    You who are not kept anxiously awake for love's sake, sleep on.
    In restless search for that river, we hurry along;
    13 lines
  • Confused and Distraught
    Again I am raging,
    I am in such a state by your soul that every
    27 lines
  • Whoever Brought Me Here
    All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
    Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • Laila and the Khalifa.
    The Khalifa said to Laila, "Art thou really she
    For whom Majnun lost his head and went distracted?
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain
    The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain, to
    burst our bonds and become estranged from all;
    30 lines
  • The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart
    The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart;
    the secret thoughts he harbored against me I also perceived.
    31 lines, 1 comment
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