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2. SHORT POEMS - Rumi Quatrains. Topics Include Spiritual, Passionate, Blasphemous and Tavern of Drunkards.
3. POEMS - Rumi Odes.

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The Essential Rumi Quotes, offers the reader a collection of the most powerful, passionate, endearing, and inspiring quotes of Rumi, selected from our decades-long love affair with Rumi’s work. These beautiful quotes have been categorized in four sections:
1. The Power of Love;
2. Beauty, Music & Dance;
3. Hope, Recovery & Death;
4. The Ascended Master, The Teachings.

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1. Come, come, whoever you are, a pagan, an idol worshiper or an infidel. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come.

2. When what you really love beckons you, let go and let the waves of desire take you there. Your instincts are you guide.

3. Beyond belief and knowing, good and evil, light and dark is the realm of lovers. Set your goal on that field.

4. If they ask what you do, say I create beauty in all things.

5. Lie down with your eyes closed, watch the sky bloom with hundreds of bright, sparkling flowers.

6. In your light, I know love. In your beauty, I make poetry. You suddenly dance inside my chest, hidden from view. My art becomes this expression.

7. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

8. If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

9. Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

10. Be silent, and go into that place where everything is music.

11. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you up like a prayer to the sky.

12. Love, you are my certainty. Lift me to the stars. This "I" is a figment of my imagination.

13. Go find yourself first, so you can also find me.

14. The one who was always in my thoughts, for whom I've searched so long, has come to me with open arms, laying flowers on my path.

15. The middle path is the way to wisdom.

16. Dance as you rise above the two worlds. Dance to tear your heart to pieces and give up your soul.

17. There is a morning inside you waiting to burst into light.

18. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

19. Be warmed with love, for only love exists. Where is intimacy except in giving and receiving?

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20. Let go of your cup filled with yesterday, instead drink the nectar of this moment.

21. The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

22. When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.

23. When you surpass the human state, your angelic nature will unfold beyond this world. Surpass the angels then enter that timeless ocean.

24. What matters is how quickly you do what your soul wants.

25. Observe the wonders around you. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

26. Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested.

27. How can you ever hope to know the Beloved without becoming in every cell the lover?

28. Love is the bridge between you and everything.

29. A life without Love isn't a life.

30. On this path let the heart be your guide.

31. The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

32. Respond to every call that ignites your spirit.

33. Why struggle to open the door between you and I, when the separation is an illusion.

34. Don't give me back to my old companions. Inside you my yearning stops.

35. First there is the calamity of love. When the lover has lost his senses and his bearings, then the teacher appears.

36. It's your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

37. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.

38. Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky, and you lift me up out of the two worlds.

39. It is your turn now. You waited; you were patient. The time has come for us to polish you. We will transform your inner pearl into a house of fire.

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40. You're a gold mine. Did you know that, hidden in the dust of the earth. It is your turn now, to be placed in fire. Let us cremate your impurities.

41. The infidels aren't lost. You are lost. That's why everyone else seems lost to you.

42. This world is teeming with the presence of Christ.

43. We have become one in such a way, that I am confused whether I am you, or you are me.

44. Stop thinking small. You have the whole universe inside you.

45. Everything that you seek. You are already that.

46. Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.

47. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself. Everything that you seek, you are already that.

48. Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything, but once we get drunk on that love, whatever will be, will be.

49. A true lover doesn't follow any one religion, be sure of that.

50. Love is best when mixed with anguish. In our town, we won't call you a lover if you escape the pain.

51. Tonight is the night. It's the creation of that land of eternity. It's not an ordinary night, it's a wedding of those who seek love.

52. To deal with you hiding behind your holiness, I seek a good time instead.

53. Show me an intellect gone mad and I will show you a soul departed for good.

54. I have lost myself in God, and now God is mine. Don't look for Him in every direction, for He is in my soul.

55. In the path of union, the wise man and the mad man are one.

56. Oh, soul, you worry too much.

57. He smiled like a rose in full bloom, he said, come into the heart of fire. There you will see what you thought was a flame, is only jasmine.

58. When you dance the whole universe dances.

59. I am powerless by love's game. How can you expect me to behave and act modest?

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60. Die in love and stay alive forever.

61. Don't act so small, you have the whole universe inside you.

62. I have come to bring out the beauty in you.

63. Love came and moved like blood in my body. It rushed through my veins and encircled my heart.

64. When you finally see your own true beauty, you will become an idol for yourself.

65. Love is the strand that connects you to you.

66. If your heart is not with me, sitting together is not enough.

67. The lover and the Beloved are like a mirror for each other, one is the cause for the other's effect.

68. Sorrow said to me, all this joy that you have brought to the world has killed my business completely.

69. Your body is like a guest house, receiving company from the hidden world. Some are positive, some are tragic and still others who are frantic.

70. What you are seeking is also seeking you.

71. Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

72. The "infidels" aren't lost. You are lost, that is why everyone else seems lost.

73. A true lover doesn't follow any one religion, since in the religion of love, there is no mosque or priest.

74. I've become a rose petal and you are like the wind for me, take me for a ride.

75. Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you.

76. Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

77. They say love opens a door from one heart to another. But if there is no wall, how can there be a door.

78. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, I am changing myself.

79. When were you ever made less by dying?

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80. Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

81. Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

82. If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.

83. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you

84. True lovers aren't formed by chance. They are for each other from the start.

85. In the path of union, the wise man and the mad man are one.

86. There is a path from me to you that I am constantly searching for.

87. A true lover doesn't follow any one religion, since in the religion of love, there is no irreverence or faith.

88. Love elevates you to the next level.

89. You are the comfort of my soul. You are the wealth of my spirit.

90. Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

91. I am yours. Don't give me back to myself again.

92. Your heart and my heart are very old friends.

93. Love is not an emotion; it is your very existence.

94. I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

95. When you seek love with all your heart, you'll find that it echoes throughout the universe

96. I want that love that will raise the dead.

97. I want that love that brings out the beauty of silence.

98. Choose love. Choose love.

99. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

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100. You may learn a bit by reading, but you will understand with love.

101. The love you seek with all your heart, echoes throughout the universe.

102. Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

103. The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

104. Remember, love is reckless, but reason pursues a profit. True love is all-consuming and totally unabashed.

105. A lifetime without love is of no account

106. Love is the Water of Life.

107. What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart.

108. You reap what you sow. With life as short as a breath, don't plant anything but love.

109. Beloved, am I the seeker or the sought? Until I am I, you are another. There is no place for "You" and "I" in unity.

110. Giving thanks for abundance is greater than the abundance itself.

111. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

112. Why should I seek? I'm the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I've been looking for myself.

113. Your task is not to seek love, but to search and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

114. There is a voice that doesn't use words, listen.

115. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

116. You are the drop and the ocean.

117. The words you speak become the house you live in.

118. Little by little you will turn into a whole sweet amorous universe.

119. You've seen my descent. Now watch my rising.

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120. The wound is where the light enters you.

121. Of those who are blind to your beauty and deaf to your songs, why do you worry?

122. Build a ship, and there will be water to greet it.

123. Your face lights up like a flower in bloom when hit with the truth of love.

124. Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

125. When the oceans surge let them splash inside your chest.

126. There is an unseen presence that bestows gifts.

127. Any pain you may feel, is a messenger, listen to it.

128. When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

129. Like melting snow, wash yourself of yourself.

130. We hold inside the wonders we seek outside.

131. Don't search among the branches when the answer is in the roots.

132. There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen!

133. You were born with wings, why crawl through life.

134. Unfold your own myth.

135. If you find every wipe of your soul irritating, how will you ever be polished.

136. My soul is from elsewhere, I know I will end up there.

137. Love knows the way.

138. Let's delight in one another now, before there is no more of you and I.

139. Let's get drunk on one another now, before there is no more of you and I.

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140. Don't place kisses on my tombstone after I die, smother me with them now.

141. Everything holds a pleasing form, but not everyone appreciates it.

142. What you seek, is seeking you.

143. May your instincts be your guide.

144. Welcome, now be fearless. My words are fire.

145. You are the truth from head to toe.

146. Don't grieve. Anything lost returns in another form.

147. Ask from yourself for yourself. All the universe is already within you.
Love is the whole thing.

148. Dance, when you're broken open. Dance and become free.

149. Silence is the language of love.

150. You're almost there, just follow my voice.

151. If everything around seems dark, you may need to brighten your light.

152. Beauty surrounds us.

153. The only lasting beauty is the truth of the heart.

154. As you start to walk, the way appears.

155. You send out blessings like blossoms falling around you.

156. Joy is closer to the truth than pain or sorrow. Choose joy.

157. The water also seeks the thirsty.

158. I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

159. It is silent that draws one person to another, not words.

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160. With my mouth closed I spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

161. I don't want learning. I want the warmth of your cheek against mine.

162. The music brightens the house of lovers.

163. Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

164. I am fierce and tender. Fierce to those who wish to limit me, tender to those who wish me growth.

165. Lovers find secret places inside this violent world.

166. People who repress desires are hypocrites.

167. Ignore all who wish to dim your light.

168. Be shameless, if you want to learn our secrets.

169. Patience is foreseeing.

170. Don't resist the uplifting changes that come your way.

171. How much light can you hold inside you? Expand your horizons and let more light in.

172. Walk out of your house like a prophet that you know you are.

173. A bird doesn't care who hears it sing. Be like that.

174. Be determined like Noah. Build the boat, even if the town laughs at you.

175. The one who points the finger is to blame.

176. Everything is choice. Choose joy, not pain or sorrow.

177. I am and I am not. Not unlike a shadow.

178. Birds earn their wings by falling.

179. Keep walking. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing through.

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180. One morning, a presence comes over your soul. You heart sings, not unlike a rooster. You begin to dance in your earth-colored body.

181. Joy is hidden beneath sorrow.

182. Never give from the depths of your well, protect your core.

183. If you could rise above yourself for a moment, the secret of secrets will be revealed to you.

184. In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness, nothing else exists.

185. I said, First I know you, then I die. He said, For the one who knows me, there is no dying.

186. You reap what you sow, if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but love.

187. Don't bother explaining to those who don't resonate. People are closed to the truth.

188. Learn the alchemy of soul evolution in human form. The moment you understand what growth really is, the door will open.

189. Lose your soul in love, I swear, there is no other way.

190. Empower yourself and you'll grow greater than the world. Only then your true self will be revealed to you

191. The sum of my whole life is in these three sayings: I was raw. I got cooked. I was freed.

192. Half of life is lost in charming others. The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others. Rise above this cruel game.

193. Let the fire of love burn my sorrow and purify my soul so I can fly without wings.

194. Open your arms, if you want to be held.

195. Let silence be the art you practice. The quieter you become, the more you hear.

196. Being a candle is not easy, in order to give light one must first burn.

197. As you start to walk on the path, the way appears.

198. Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.

199. I am not the body, I am the soul that lives within.

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200. Don't you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.

201. You are not meant for crawling. Use your golden wings and fly.

202. Gratitude is like wine for the soul. Go and have your fill.

203. I said: What about my heart? He said: What you hold inside it? I said: Pain and sorrow. He said: The wound is the place where the light enters you.

204. Dance as you rise above the two worlds. Dance as if to burst your heart and give up your soul.

205. Dance like no one is watching.

206. Don't feel lonely. The entire universe is inside you.

207. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep!

208. Yearning!

209. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.

210. Love, comes to you of its own accord, and the yearning for it
cannot be learned in any school.

211. Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

212. Half of life is lost in charming others. The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others. Leave this play, you have played enough.

213. Raise your words not voice, it is rain that grows flowers not thunder.

214. I am in a boat made of myself by myself, no light and no land, I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living with the ocean.

215. The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

216. I said: What about my heart? He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?

217. I said: What about my passion? He said: Keep it burning.

218. Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone.

219. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

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220. Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. For those who love with their heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

221. Every mortal will taste death but only some will taste life.

222. I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it.

223. Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

224. Knock, and he'll open the door. Vanish and he'll make you shine like the sun. Fall and he'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and he'll turn you into everything.

225. There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, Seek that mine. O, traveler, if you are in search of that, don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.

226. They say there is a doorway from heart to heart but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

227. Be like a tree, let the dead leaves drop.

228. No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

229. I died a mineral and came back a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When have I been less by dying?

230. In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

231. You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

232. The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

233. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

234. Suffering is a gift - in it is hidden mercy.

235. The moment you admit the troubles you've been given, a door will open.

236. Our death is our wedding with eternity.

237. Your shadow self has been serving you.

238. Darkness can also be your candle. You must brave through sources of shadow and light.

239. Listen and lay your head under the tree of awe.

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240. Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.

241. If you want the moon, do not hide at night. If you want a rose, do not hide from thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.

242. I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.

243. I want to know the joy of how you whisper more.

244. IThe rose's rarest essence, lives in the thorns.

245. The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

246. You were born with wings.

247. The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

248. My words are fire.

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Additional Quotes Attributed to Rumi

Extra 1. Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Extra 2. Out beyond the ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field, I'll meet you there.

Extra 3. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Extra 4. Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace and sudden flame catching.

Extra 5. When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

Extra 6. Dancing is not getting up any time painlessly like a speck of dust blown around in the wind.

Extra 7. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing, how blind that was.

Extra 8. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along.

Extra 9. I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

Extra 10. The flower of what's true opens in the face.

Extra 11. Leave this world like the essence of rose that passes through the perfumer's still.

RUMI POEMS
by Shahram Shiva

The selection below offers a wonderful cross section of Rumi's various topics and moods. They include poems that are deeply passionate, whimsical, spiritual, profound and even those that are considered blasphemous. This selection includes both short (quatrains) and long poems (odes).

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All rights reserved. Do not duplicate without permission.
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All poems are from Shahram Shiva's following books:

Rumi: The Beloved is You
My Favorite Collection of Deeply Passionate, Whimsical, Spiritual and Profound Poems and Quotes

(Rumi Network Publishing)

Hush Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
(Jain Publishing)

And the Award-Winning
Rending The Veil: Literal and Poetic Translations of Rumi
(Hohm Press)

QUATRAINS

All poems are from Shahram Shiva's following books:

Rumi: The Beloved is You
My Favorite Collection of Deeply Passionate, Whimsical, Spiritual and Profound Poems and Quotes

(Rumi Network Publishing)

Hush Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
(Jain Publishing)

And the Award-Winning
Rending The Veil: Literal and Poetic Translations of Rumi
(Hohm Press)

Alas, don't tell me the Christians are lost.
Don't tell me the Jews are lost.
Don't tell me the infidels are lost.
Alas, my brother, you are lost,
That is why everyone else seems lost.
Last night,
I saw the realm of joy and pleasure.
There I melted like salt;
no religion, no blasphemy,
no conviction or uncertainty remained.
In the middle of my heart,
a star appeared,
and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.
A true Lover doesn't follow any one religion,
be sure of that.
Since in the religion of Love,
there is no irreverence or faith.
When in Love,
body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist.
Become this Love,
and you will not be separated again.
You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don't be without Love,
so you won't feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.
Love is best when mixed with anguish.
In our town,
we won't call you a Lover
if you escape the pain.
Look for Love in this way,
welcome it to your soul,
and watch your spirit fly away in ecstasy.
My head is bursting
with the joy of the unknown.
My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my love.
Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end.
Imagine,
a suspended ocean,
riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.
All souls have drowned in it,
and now dwell there.
One drop of that ocean is hope,
and the rest is fear.
To Love is to be God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to be God.
I am drumming,
I am drumming,
I am drumming
for my Love's ever nearing union.
They say get a life.
What is all this drumming?
I swear to that Love,
the day that I stop drumming,
is the day that I will stop living.
I said, meet me in the garden.
You know the one--
it is called Smiling Spring.
There are nightingales chirping away,
wine and candle lights,
and companions as soft as
pomegranate blossoms.
You think this all would sound so perfect!
But without you by my side,
what use is the Smiling Spring?
And when you are with me,
what use are pomegranate blossoms?
I am an atom;
you are like the countenance of the Sun for me.
I am a patient of Love
you are like medicine for me.
Without wings, without feathers,
I fly about looking for you.
I have become a rose petal
and you are like the wind for me.
Take me for a ride.
It is your turn now,
you waited, you were patient.
The time has come,
for us to polish you.
We will transform your inner pearl
into a house of fire.
You're a gold mine.
Did you know that,
hidden in the dirt of the earth?
It is your turn now,
to be placed in fire.
Let us cremate your impurities.
I am powerless by Love's game.
How can you expect me
to behave and act modest?
How can you expect me
to stay at home,
like a good little boy?
How can you expect me
to enjoy being chained like a mad man?
Oh, my love, you will find me every night,
on your street,
with my eyes glued to your window,
waiting for a glimpse of your radiant face.
To heal the burning of your sorrow,
I seek a flame.
To gather the dust of your door,
I seek the palms of my hands.
To deal with you hiding behind your holiness,
I seek a good time instead.
Tonight
is the night.
It's the creation of that land of eternity.
It's not an ordinary night,
it's a wedding of those who seek Love.
Tonight, the bride and groom
speak in one tongue.
Tonight, the bridal chamber
is looking particularly bright.
When we talk about the witness in our verse,
we talk about you.
A pure heart and a noble demeanor
cannot compete with your radiant face.
They will ask you
what you have produced.
Say to them,
except for Love,
what else can a Lover produce?
My head is bursting
with the joy of the unknown.
My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my love.
Love came,
and became like blood in my body.
It rushed through my veins and
encircled my heart.
Everywhere I looked,
I saw one thing.
Love's name written
on my limbs,
on my left palm,
on my forehead,
on the back of my neck,
on my right big toe…
Oh, my friend,
all that you see of me
is just a shell,
and the rest belongs to love.
I am in Love!
All this advise--
what's the use?
I have drunk poison.
All this sugar
what's the use?
You say hurry,
tie up his feet.
But its my heart that's gone crazy,
all this rope
around my feet--
what's the use?
There is a certain Love
that is formed out of the
elixir of the East.
There is a certain cloud,
impregnated with a
thousand lightnings.
There is my body,
in it an ocean formed of his glory,
all the creation,
all the universes,
all the galaxies,
are lost in it.
I wish I could give you a taste of
the burning fire of Love.
There is a fire
blazing inside of me.
If I cry about it, or if I don't,
the fire is at work,
night and day.
People make clothing to cover their intellect,
but the heart of Lovers
is a shroud,
inflamed in golden hues of Love.
By day I praised you
and never knew it.
By night I stayed with you
and never knew it.
I always thought that
I was me--but no,
I was you
and never knew it.
This world is no match for your Love.
Being away from you
is death aiming to take my soul away.
My heart, so precious,
I won't trade for a hundred thousand souls.
Your one smile takes it for free.
I saw Sorrow
holding a cup of pain.
I said, hey sorrow,
sorry to see you this way.
What's troubling you?
What's with the cup?
Sorrow said,
what else can I do?
All this Joy that you have brought to the world has killed my business completely.
Neither I am me,
nor you are you,
nor you are me.
Also, I am me,
you are you
and you are me.
We have become one
in such a way,
That I am confused whether
I am you,
or you are me.
Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.
Tonight
is the night.
It is the creation of that land of eternity.
It is not an ordinary night,
It is a wedding of those who seek unity.
Tonight, the bride and groom
speak in one tongue.
Tonight, the bridal chamber
is looking particularly bright.
Go ahead: ask me!
Ask me about Love,
and I will tell you the essence of madness.
Ask me of an intellect gone mad,
and I will show you a soul departed for good.
Ask me of a hundred calamities,
of a hundred life transformations.
Ask me of a hundred deserts engulfed in fire.
Ask me of a hundred oceans red with blood.

I am an atom;
you are like the countenance of the Sun for me.
I am a patient of Love
you are like medicine for me.
Without wings, without feathers,
I fly about looking for you.
I have become a rose petal
and you are like the wind for me.
Take me for a ride.

Your Body is a Guest House

Listen, oh beautiful soul.
Every day a new feast
comes running into your life.
Always a new experience.

Your body is like a guest house,
receiving company from the hidden world.
Some are positive,
some are tragic,
and still others who are frantic.

All mirroring your needs.
All showing you ways to expand.
All challenging your beliefs.

Whoever that comes from these unseen lands,
receive it without regret.
Welcome all that come to you,
with no judgment.

Remember, every visitor,
here a short time,
meant only for your growth.

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Keep Walking

Keep moving upward.
Keep pushing through.
Keep walking.
Don't mind the destination.
Don't mind the distractions along the way.
Just keep walking, it will all become clear soon.
Remember, don't let fear be your guide on this path.

No Religion

Tonight,
I see the realm of joy and pleasure.

I've lost myself in it
and it has lost itself in me:
No religion,
No dogma,
No conformity,
No guilt,
No shame,
No fear,
No conviction,
No uncertainty remain.

In the middle of my heart,
a star appears,
and the seven heavens
are lost in its brilliance.

Whirling

When you dance the whole universe dances.
All the realms spun around you in endless celebration.
Your soul loses its grip.
Your body sheds its fatigue.
Hearing my hands clap and my drum beat,
You begin to whirl.

Heart of Fire

He smiled like a rose in full bloom,

he said, come into the heart of fire.

There you will see
what you thought was a flame,
is only jasmine.

What you thought was heat,
is only a leaf on a tree.

What you thought was a blinding glow,
is only a bed of tulips.

Walk right in,
and, hush, don't say anything.

Ascension

From the dust of the earth to a human being,
there are a thousand steps.

I have been with you through these steps,
I have held your hand and walked by your side.

And I will be with you
as you move beyond this human form
and soar to the highest heavens.

For Weddings

May this marriage be blessed.
May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.
May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.
May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.
May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.
May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.
May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.
Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

Gathering of Lovers

This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple.
This gathering is more like a drunken party,
full of tricksters, fools,
mad men and mad women.
This is a gathering of Lovers.

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Hush Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

Rumi's drunken poems have multiple meanings. Rumi wants us to know that for him they represent a sense of ecstatic abandonment brought about by movement, breathing and whirling. However, they also quite literally represent wild nights of partying. Keep in mind Rumi didn't invent Persian mysticism. It has been around for at least four thousand years. He was simply taken for a short ride on a guest pass. Shams on the other hand was a real pro and signified Rumi's polarity. Rumi may have been very conversative, but Shams did what he wanted, when he wanted. His reputation as a wild mystic was well earned. Many of the poems in the Cult of the Tavern are referencing Shams' gloriously uninhibited lifestyle.

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Awaken The Drunks

Awaken the drunks
from the sea of wine.
Awaken the drunks,
like a soul is awakened
by the Beloved.

Oh the bringer of wine,
and the bestower of eternal life,
bring my next sip from that ancient barrel.

Make your soul like a huge vessel,
to hold the wine of the Beloved.

Look at that friend,
he knows this wine
is not taken through the mouth,
but he is sticking his tongue out anyway.

Oh Saaqhi, pour me the wine,
pour it from your eyes to my eyes.
Pour it so even the mouth
won’t know anything of it.

When a letter of my Beloved arrived,
I bowed to his eloquence.
Oh Shams, your each word
scatters pearls across the field.

Bring the pure wine of
love and freedom.
But sir, a tornado is coming.
More wine, we'll teach this storm
A thing or two about whirling.
The Lovers
will drink wine night and day.
They will drink until they can
tear away the veils of intellect and
melt away the layers of shame and modesty.
When in Love,
body, mind, heart and soul don’t even exist.
Become this,
fall in Love,
and you will not be separated again.
The Lover is ever drunk with Love.
He is mad,
she is free.
He sings with delight,
she dances with ecstasy.
Caught by our own thoughts,
we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk on that Love
whatever will be, will be.
I am so drunk
I have lost the way in
and the way out.
I have lost the earth, the moon, and the sky.
Don't put another cup of wine in my hand,
pour it in my mouth,
for I have lost the way to my mouth.
I sipped some of love's sweet wine,
and now I am ill.
My body aches,
my fever is high.
They called in the doctor and he said,
drink this tea!
Ok, time to drink this tea.
He said,
Take these pills!
Ok, time to take these pills.
The doctor said,
And get rid of the sweet wine of love's lips!
Ok, time to get rid of the doctor.

 

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Mansur was such a master, that on the path of God.
He split each thread from the fabric of his soul.
What did Mansur proclaim? "I am the truth."
Who was Mansur? He was God. He was God.

We are the lovers of love, and Moslems are different.
We are weak as an ant, and Solomon is different.
Ask us for an ashen face and torn guts.
The bazaar of linen sellers is different.

In the path of union, the wise man and the mad man are one.
In the way of love, close friends and strangers are one.
That one who has tasted the wine of union with the supreme soul.
In his faith, the Kaaba and an idol temple are one.

I have lost myself in God, and now God is mine.
Don't look for Him in every direction, for He is in my soul.
I am the Sultan. I would be lying.
If I said that there is someone who is my sultan.

To that beloved
flower and thorn are one.
A verse from the Koran and the Brahmin's thread are one.
Don't try to impress him, to that beloved hero and fool are one.

If I pray it's only so my heart would turn toward you.
If I face the Kaaba it's only so my eyes might turn toward you.
Otherwise, I'll rid the world of prayer.
I'll tear down the Kaaba.

Alas, don't say those treading the path are not the chosen ones.
That the followers of Christ, or the faithless are not the chosen ones.
Because you are not chosen to be the keeper of secrets.
You think that others are not the chosen ones.

This is you, making me drunk in a monastery.
Turning me into an idol worshiper while I am seated at Kaaba.
I have no control in this game of good and bad.

 

POEMS & ODES

All Rumi poems are from Shahram Shiva's books

Rumi: The Beloved is You
My Favorite Collection of Deeply Passionate, Whimsical, Spiritual and Profound Poems and Quotes

(Rumi Network Publishing)


Hush Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
(Jain Publishing)

RUMI: LOVEDRUNK CD LYRICS
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1. LOVE SAID TO ME
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

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 you 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.


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 it does,
just be totally…
totally…
silent.

Lyrics from RUMI: Lovedrunk CD
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2. LOVEDRUNK
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

The lover is ever drunk with love.
She is free, he is mad,
She sings with delight
As he dances in ecstasy.

Caught by our own thoughts,
We worry about everything.
But once you get drunk on that love.
Whatever will be, will be…

Lyrics from RUMI: Lovedrunk CD
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3. YOU WORRY TOO MUCH
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

Oh soul,
you worry too much.

You say,
I make you feel dizzy.
Of a little headache then,
why do you worry?
You say, I am your moon-faced beauty.
Of the cycles of the moon and
passing of the years,
why do you worry?
You say, I am your
source of passion,
I excite you.
Of playing into the Devils hand,
why do you worry?

Oh soul,
you worry too much.

Look at yourself,
what you have become.
You are now a field of
sugar canes,
why show that sour face to me?
You say that I keep you warm inside.
Then why this cold sigh?
You have gone to the
roof of heavens.
Of this world of dust,
why do you worry?

Oh soul,
you worry too much.

Your arms are heavy
with treasures of all kinds.
You are Joseph,
beautiful, strong,
steadfast in your belief,
all of Egypt has become drunk
because of you.

Of those who are blind to your beauty,
and deaf to your songs,
why do you worry?

Oh soul,
you worry too much.

You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your
golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
You are the security,
the shelter of the spirit of Lovers.
Oh the sultan of sultans,
of any other king,
why do you worry?

Be silent, like a fish,
and go into that pleasant sea.
You are in deep waters now,
of life’s blazing fire.
Why do you worry?

Lyrics from RUMI: Lovedrunk CD
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4. LOVER ME
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

Lover me, cave me,
the sweet burn of Love me.
Lover you, cave you,
Shams protect me.
Noah you, soul you,
conqueror and the conquered you
the awakened heart you.
Why hold me at that gate of your secret?

Light you, celebration you,
the victorious land you
the bird of Mount Sinai you.
You carry me on your tired beak.
Drop you, ocean you,
compassion and rage you,
sugar you, poison you.
Please don’t continue to hurt me.

The orb of the Sun you,
the house of Venus you,
the sliver of hope you.
Open up the way for me.
Day you, night you,
fasting and the crumbs of a beggar you,
water and a pitcher you.
Quench my thirst, Beloved.

Bait you, trap you,
wine you, cup you,
baked and raw you.
Please don’t let me be unbaked.

If you don’t run my body too hard,
if you don’t cut my way too much,
if you try to help rather than make my life more difficult.
Oh, all these words of mine.

Lyrics from RUMI: Lovedrunk CD
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5. I SAW GOODNESS GETTING DRUNK
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

I am gone,
lost any sense of wanting the wine
of the nowhereness ask me,
I don’t know where I am.

At times I plunge
to the bottom of the sea,
at times, rise up
like the Sun.
At times, the universe is pregnant by me,
at times I give birth to it.
The milestone in my life
is the nowhereness,
I don’t fit anywhere else.

This is me:
a rogue and a drunkard,
easy to spot
in the tavern of Lovers.
I am the one shouting hey ha.
They ask me why I don’t
behave myself.
I say, when you
reveal your true nature,
then I will act my age.

Last night, I saw Goodness getting drunk.
He growled and said,
I am a nuisance, a nuisance.
A hundred souls cried out, but
we are yours, we are yours, we are yours.
You are the light
that spoke to Moses and said
I am God, I am God, I am God.
I said Love, who are you?
He said, I am you, I am you, I am you.

Lyrics from RUMI: Lovedrunk CD
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6. I'VE GOT YOU NOW
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

My face free of sorrow,
my mouth full of wine,
my clothes torn off my body.
Look what you’ve done to me now.

He says, "That’s what I do.
I tear away the layers.
I melt the shame.
I reveal the unrevealed."

He moves too fast.
One breath, he is outside the window.
Next breath, he is inside my shirt.
I can’t think clear,
my mind is not here,
he is all I see.

NOW!
There is new life in me.

The seven heavens cannot contain him,
but he is here,
moving up my shirt.
Pop, one button here.
Pop, one button there.

This lion of God
watches over me,
I sing as he roars.

He says, "I’ve got you now.
I gave you life,
I created you,
I do what I want now."

I am your harp,
play me easy,
play me hard, or
don’t touch my strings at all.

You know!
I think,
I’ve got YOU now.
Before I met you,
I had only one heart,
I had only one body,
I was only being.
But look at me now,
I’ve got you now.

Lyrics from RUMI: Lovedrunk CD
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7. SEVEN PEARLS
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

Neither I am me,
nor you are you,
nor you are me.
Also, I am me,
you are you
and you are me.
We have become one
in such a way,
That I am confused whether
I am you,
or you are me.


The Lovers
will drink wine night and day.
They will drink until they can
tear away the veils of intellect and
melt away the layers of shame and modesty.
When in Love,
body, mind, heart and soul don’t even exist.
Become this,
fall in Love,
and you will not be separated again.


Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.


Tonight
is the night.
It is the creation of that land of eternity.
It is not an ordinary night,
It is a wedding of those who seek unity.
Tonight, the bride and groom
speak in one tongue.
Tonight, the bridal chamber
is looking particularly bright.


Go ahead: ask me!
Ask me about Love,
and I will tell you the essence of madness.
Ask me of an intellect gone mad,
and I will show you a soul departed for good.
Ask me of a hundred calamities,
of a hundred life transformations.
Ask me of a hundred deserts engulfed in fire.
Ask me of a hundred oceans red with blood.


I am an atom;
you are like the countenance of the Sun for me.
I am a patient of Love
you are like medicine for me.
Without wings, without feathers,
I fly about looking for you.
I have become a rose petal
and you are like the wind for me.
Take me for a ride.


By day I praised you
and never knew it.
By night I stayed with you
and never knew it.
I always thought that
I was me--but no,
I was you
and never knew it.

Lyrics from RUMI: Lovedrunk CD
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8. GATHERING OF LOVERS
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple.
This gathering is more like a drunken party,
full of tricksters, fools,
mad men and mad women.
This is a gathering of Lovers.

Lyrics from RUMI: Lovedrunk CD
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9. A TIME FOR MADNESS
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

Once more,
Love is pouring down my ceiling
and my walls.

Once more, it is the night of the full moon,
it is time for madness.
All my immense knowledge
cannot help me now.

Insomnia took my patience.
Rain washed away my intellect.
The Lover made me lose my profession.
What good is my work anyway?

Once more,
rise, rise, rise,
Once more,
rise, rise, rise,
Once more,
rise, rise, rise.

Like the way a garden burns
in a hundred shades of orange in the fall,
a Lover’s heart shrivels for a sense of the Beloved’s touch.
Now the face of that charred garden
is my field of flowers.

Look, two hundred Jupiters
are dancing around my moon.

My Love business is booming,
but don’t credit the consultants.
I am done with the consultants
and the pundits,
they call you Jafar the imposter.

Little do they know,
Little do they know,
that you are my Shams
You are my Shams
the Flyer.

Once more,
rise, rise, rise,
rise, rise, rise,
rise, rise, rise.

Lyrics from RUMI: Lovedrunk CD
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10. INVOCATION
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

Appear oh Shams,
appear.
Your boundless grace
has enraptured the lovers on the path,
for ages.
Appear oh Shams,
appear.

Lyrics from RUMI: Lovedrunk CD
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RUMI: LOVE EVOLVE CD LYRICS
5 Songs with Rumi Translations and 5 Songs with Original Lyrics

RUMI: Love Evolve features five Rumi songs (in addition to five original lyrics) by Shahram Shiva.
Please find the Rumi poems from Love Evolve below.
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10. THIS IS ENLIGHTENMENT
(Original lyrics by Shahram Shiva)

You are hypnotized by the whirl of the universe.

You are an ageless lone spark,
having a unique experience
in a constantly shifting reality.

You are a spiral of light

A fountain of fire,

Be a shower of shine.

Yes, you can handle love.
Yes, you can be love.
You deserve love.

All that you seek,
is hidden in this truth:
Love yourself.
Love yourself.
Love yourself.

Yes, you can handle love.
Yes, you can be love.
Yes, you can give love.
Yes, you deserve love.
You are love.

Lyrics from LOVE EVOLVE CD
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1. LOVE EVOLVE
(Original lyrics by Shahram Shiva)

So I talk about love,
Yes I talk about love,
and the chemistry of sound.
I talk about hope,
and the need to expand.
I talk about faith,
with our eyes open wide.
I talk about you,
and the secret that is your heart.

Let go,
Learn to unlearn what you learned
Learn to be love and evolve.

Open up,
It’s time to enhance your essence.
Open up, Open up, Open up to change.

So I talk about love,
And our love is about secrets
And our secrets
are within you.

Let’s talk about you.
Some hearts are progressive
some are regressive.
Which one are you?

Do you push forward,
and wish for a change?

Or cling to the past.
and hide in convention?

Yes,
I talk about love,
I talk about you,
and the secret that is your heart.

Let go,
Learn to unlearn what you learned
Learn to be love and evolve.

Open up,
It’s time to enhance your essence.
Open up, Open up, Open up to change.

Here’s to love and
the need to evolve.
Here’s to change and
the need to transform.
Here’s to hope and
the need to grow.

And here’s to you
and your beautiful progressive heart.

Lyrics from LOVE EVOLVE CD
© Copyright Shahram Shiva

2. BE GUILTLESS
(Original lyrics by Shahram Shiva)

Listen,
my love,
your soul is ever intact.

Don’t mind the destination,
Don’t mind the end.
Don’t mind the good or bad
or right and wrong.

Grow from the past,
but grab hold of now.
Now is always evolving.

The end is eternal
It’s ever reaching.

As there are billions of stars
There are billions of steps.
As there are
billions of souls,
There are
billions of ways to grow.

Last night,
Under the roof of all nations
a woman in red
spoke of self-realization.
She said,
I am fully illuminated.

Listen my love,
Illumination is eternal,
It can never be full.
Evolution is eternal.
Now is always evolving.

The end is eternal
It’s ever reaching.

As there are billions of stars
There are billions of steps.
As there are
billions of souls,
There are
billions of ways to grow.

Listen,
my love,
your soul is ever intact.
You can't be hurt,
you can't be hurt at all.

Listen my love,
as you carve your own path
on this eternal joy ride,
show courage
by remaining
open,
free,
and guiltless
in the midst of an ever-reaching end.

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7. NO RELIGION
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

Tonight,
I see the realm of joy and pleasure.

I've lost myself in it
and it has lost itself in me:
No religion,
No dogma,
No conformity,
No guilt,
No shame,
No fear,
No conviction,
No uncertainty remain.

In the middle of my heart,
a star appears,
and the seven heavens
are lost in its brilliance.

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3. CONTROL
(Original lyrics by Shahram Shiva)

You got it all figured out
You bend your body
real well
You repeat my name
so loud!
You cut your meat
Take away the eyes
in what you eat
You read about the stars and
the wheels that turn eternal
You think, you got it all figured out.
You think, you got it all figured out.

You are all that you’ll ever want,
You are all that you’ll ever need,
You are all that you’ll ever seek.

You believe stories of gods
who were kind.
And trust sparks of
red, white, black and blue
And yes,
you turn the other cheek,
And you think you got it all figured out.
You think you got it all figured out.

You swing from Dogma to Dogma
You switch from Control to Control
Oh friend,
This is a vicious circle to buy your soul.
This is a vicious circle to buy your soul.

You think, you got it all figured out.
You think, you got it all figured out.

You are all that you’ll ever want,
You are all that you’ll ever need,
You are all that you’ll ever seek.

Lyrics from LOVE EVOLVE CD
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5. LIGHT + DARK = ONE
(Original lyrics by Shahram Shiva)

Walk the middle path,
that's right,
walk the middle path.

Embrace the whole of you
not just a part of you.

(Don't cling to one side or another)

Embrace the dark in your light.
The pleasure in your life.
The chaos in your peace.
The shift in your routine.

{{Set a higher tone,}}
(Sing a higher note.)

This is a master class
and there is a price of admission:
leave your old self behind.

Rid your soul of shackles of convention.
Dust your mind of methods of control.

{{Soul evolution is?}}
(Soul evolution is!)

The beloved
is you.
{{You are the deity that you worship
You are the god that you seek.}}

Come out of your self.
(Come out of your cell)

{{We are eternal beings
currently in 3-dimensional
earth-based bodies.}}

From the moment you are born
an escape hatch is placed in front of you.

{{Escape with your mind and the desire to be free and learn more.}}

You are star light, particles of matter mixed with energy.
You are born of light and will return to light

{{Manifest like a flame}}
(No place in time
power on the inside)

Enjoy this bounty, eat your heart out

Now listen:
to heal your wounds
I get you to dance

Lyrics from LOVE EVOLVE CD
© Copyright Shahram Shiva

6. DANCE UNIVERSE
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

When you dance the whole universe dances.

All the realms spun around you in endless celebration.

Your soul loses its grip.

Your body sheds its fatigue.

Hearing my hands clap and my drum beat,

You begin to whirl.

Lyrics from LOVE EVOLVE CD
© Copyright Shahram Shiva

8. LOVE'S TOUCH
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

Love came,
and moved like blood
in my body.
It rushed through my veins
and surrounded my heart.

Everywhere I looked,
I saw...
Love's touch.

Love's touch:
on my left palm,
on my forehead,
on my eyelids,
on the back of my neck,
on my thighs,
on the tips of my fingers,
on my wings,
on my right big toe...

Love's touch...

Now,
all that you see of me
is just a shell,
and the rest belongs to Love.

Lyrics from LOVE EVOLVE CD
© Copyright Shahram Shiva

9. GO BACK TO SLEEP
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

Go back,
Go back to sleep.
Yes, you are allowed.
You who have no Love in your heart,
You can go back to sleep.

The essence of Love
is exclusive to us,
you go back to sleep.
I have been burnt
by the fire of Love.
You, who have no such yearning in your heart,
You can go back to sleep.

The path of Love,
has seventy-two folds and countless facets.
Your love and religion
is all about control, deceit and hypocrisy,
you go back to sleep.

I have torn to pieces my robe of speech,
and have let go of the desire to converse.
You who are not naked yet,
You can go back to sleep.

Lyrics from LOVE EVOLVE CD
© Copyright Shahram Shiva

5. I HAVE COME TO SHINE
(Rumi poem translated by Shahram Shiva)

I have come
to take you by your hand,
and bring you to myself.

I have come
to shine your way
as you walk this path.

I will make you guiltless,
I will make you fearless,
then I will place you in the
brightest point in the universe.

I have come like a breeze of spring
to your field of flowers,
so I can hold you by my side,
and embrace you tight.

I have come
to take you by your hand,
and bring you to myself.

I have come
to shine your way
as you walk this path.

Like the cry of lovers,
I will help you reach the
roof of heavens.

From the dust of the earth to a human being,
there are a thousand steps.
I have been with you through these steps,
I have held your hand and walked by your side.

And I will be with you
as you move beyond this human form
and soar to the highest heavens.

Lyrics from LOVE EVOLVE CD
© Copyright Shahram Shiva

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Above Rumi poems are from Shahram Shiva's books

Rumi: The Beloved is You
My Favorite Collection of Deeply Passionate, Whimsical, Spiritual and Profound Poems and Quotes

(Rumi Network Publishing)

Hush Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
(Jain Publishing)

RENDING THE VEIL: LITERAL AND POETIC TRANSLATIONS OF RUMI
(Hohm Press)

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