Rumi
Birth date: June 17, 1207
Died: September 03, 1273
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I've been dipping in and out of Rumi's Selected Poems for a couple of weeks and I don't think his poetry is for me. I'm having the same reaction towards Rumi's work as I had towards Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, ... and Paolo Coelho's The Alchemist. I just want to tell the poems / books to move al...
On RumiA Note on the Organization of This BookThe Tavern: Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have To Take Me HomeOn The Tavern--Who Says Words with My Mouth?--We have a huge barrel of wine ...--A Community of the Spirit--There's a strange frenzy in my head ...--Drunks fear the police ...--A Children's Gam...
This one is my favourite... It touches me very deeply, love this selection of Coleman Burks, love Rumi and yes, this is the Book of Love... The authentic love, pure love, love beyond the barriers we have built against it...
I cried all night. Such miracle with words: "Last year, I admired the wines. This, I’m wandering inside the red world.Last year, I gazed at the fire, This year I’m burnt kabob."[bc:The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing|67376|The Book of Love Poems of Ecstasy and Longing|Rumi|https://d202m5...
Some great, some not so great. I preferred the shorter, more aphoristic poems to the page-spanning ones. I think it was more an issue of perceived quality than lack of attention span on my part. I do, of course, realize that in this book I probably read much more Coleman Barks than Rumi.
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