Looking for Love ...

A strange passion is

moving in my head.
My heart has become a bird

which searches in the sky.
Every part of me goes in

different directions.
Is it really so that the one

I love is everywhere?

-By Rumi-

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~ The Love Poems of Rumi ~

Rumi lived in the early 13th century in Persia. He is often described as the "Ecstatic Poet." His poetry has inspired people because he writes about our deepest longings.

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The Beauty of the Heart...

The beauty of the heart
is the lasting beauty:
its lips give to drink
of the water of life. Truly it is the water,
that which pours,
and the one who drinks.
All three become one when
your talisman is shattered.
That oneness you can't know
by reasoning.

From: Mathnawi II, 716-718
-Rumi-

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Even the sun with its golden rays...

Even the sun with its golden rays

Reaches out to you at the end of the day

To hold you in its warm embrace

And tenderly touch your beautiful face

It covers you in its shimmering glow

To caress you gently before it goes

Then falls at last upon your lips

As if to give you a good night kiss

So I tell you, I envy the sun

For all those things which it has done

While all there is for me to do

Is await the night so I can dream of you.

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