Beauty and Love

Beauty and Love are as body and soul.

Beauty is the mind, LOVE is the diamond.

They have been together since the beginning of time.

Side by side, step by step.

~ Rumi

Light

In your light I learn how to love.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,

where no one sees  you,

but sometimes I do,

and that light becomes this art.

 ~ Rumi (as interpreted by Coleman Barks

Guest Poet: Rumi

Photo credit: Ironpaw1

Be a lamp, or a light post, or a ladder.

Help someone's soul heal.

Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

~~ Rumi

Guest Poet: Rumi

Such encouragement. Such wisdom. What an uplifting man. ~GH

Do Not Seek for Love

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One of my favorite short stories, "Good Neighbors," is now available at Amazon.com. A dark short story about neighbors helping neighbors deal with tricky family matters. Sometimes the best way to be a good neighbor is to turn your head. 

[Tomorrow: A Heart Needs A Home]

Travelling

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You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.
           ~~Rumi

Five of my short stories are now available on Amazon Kindle. "Good Neighbors" is a dark tale about family issues and how being neighborly sometimes means keeping your nose in your own yard. Available <click here>. ~~GH

[Tomorrow: ]

The Soul is a Stranger

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The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home somewhere that is not a where.
               ~~Rumi

[Tomorrow: Lovemaking, Lovebreaking]

I Will be Waiting

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I will be waiting here

For your Silence to break

For your Soul to shake

For your Love to wake.

  ~~ Rumi

[Tomorrow: Something Strange About You]

Sometimes I Do

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."
  ~~Rumi

[Tomorrow: Ye Are Many]

Lose Yourself

Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love. 

        ~~Rumi

[Tomorrow: Mirage of Homage]

A River Moving in Your Soul

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” 
      ~~Rumi

[Tomorrow: The Power Within]

Born With Wings

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” 
 ~~Rumi

[Tomorrow: Art is a Lie]

Alienated

It doesn't get much better than this -- one of my favorite (if not my favorite) poets  [Rumi] combined with one of my favorite musicians [Richard Thompson]. Wow. Staggering combination.

I am a bird of God’s garden
and I do not belong to this dusty world
For a day or two they have put me here
in this cage of my own body
I did not come here of my own
I will not return of my own
to my own country..

A Bird In God’s Garden – Rumi / Archuletta

[Tomorrow: Still on the Job]

A Place You Cannot See

Study me as much as you like, you will never know Me

for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.

Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself,

For I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

    ~~ Rumi

[Tomorrow: Postcards from Clarence: Lola]

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. [Wikipedia]

Out beyond ideas of wrong and right, there is a field.
I will meet you there.

The heart is the secret inside the secret.

The moment you accept what troubles you've been given,
the door will open.

Love is the water of life,
jump into this water.

I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a candle light
and the sweetness of my moon.

Don’t talk about sorrow,
tell me of that treasure,
hidden if it is to you,
then just remain silent.

Last night
I lost my grip on reality
and welcomed insanity.
Love saw me and said,
I showed up.
Wipe your tears
and be silent.

I said, O Love I am frightened, but it’s not you.
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me.
be silent.

I will whisper secrets in your ear
just nod yes
and be silent.

A soul moon
appeared in the path of my heart.
How precious is this journey.

I said, O Love
what kind of moon is this?
Love said to me,
this is not for you to question.
be silent.

I said, O Love
what kind of face is this,
angelic, or human?
Love said to me,
this is beyond anything that you know.
Be silent.

I said, please reveal this to me
I am dying in anticipation.
Love said to me,
that is where I want you:
Always on the edge,
be silent.
You dwell in this hall of
images and illusions,
leave this house now
and be silent.

I said, O Love, tell me this:
Does the Lord know you are
treating me this way?
Love said to me,
yes He does,
just be totally…
totally… silent

A Gift from Rumi and Me

You have no idea how hard I've looked

for a gift to bring You.

Nothing seemed right.

What's the point of bringing gold to

the gold mine, or water to the ocean.

Everything I came up with was like

taking spices to the Orient.

It's no good giving my heart and my

soul because you already have these.

So I've brought you a mirror.

Look at yourself and remember me.

     ~~Rumi

It's funny because I have been accused of being cold-hearted, unromantic, insensitive. I think my innate nature is warm, sentimental, romantic, and quite sensitive generously sprinkled with an analytical flavor. I just didn't exist in an environment that nurtured or promoted those qualities. 

Looking back over what resonates with me, I see a pattern of gentleness and love. I like it. 

It feels good to feel safe. And isn't this a most beautiful poem? ~~GH

Guest Poet: Rumi

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. 

~~ Rumi

Guest Poet: Rumi

You are not a drop in the ocean.

You are the entire ocean in a drop.

                                                ~~Rumi

Kindness

Your kindness cannot be said.

You open doors in the sky.

You ease the heart and make

God's qualities visible.

~~ Rumi

Each act initiates ripples in a never-ending ever-increasing circle. Do not underestimate the impact of the smallest kindness.~~GHC

 

Guest Poet: Rumi

I went inside my heart to see how it was.
Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.~ Rumi

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.” 
~~ Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~~ Rumi

I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come 
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way 
you purse your lips
then let them part, 
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy 
of how you whisper 
"more” 
~~ Rumi

“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.” ~~Rumi