Seems the time has come for me to be with my gardens. Why? I am redesigning many of my gardens [HOLY MOLY!], which means, adding to [buying at a Nursery] new flowers, bringing them home and planting them, thinning out existing flowers and transplanting them to other gardens, getting rid of plants that are not … Continue reading Time-Out
*If Rumi was alive, I would hug and kiss this man. The following words I know I have touched upon myself in my own writings, and some of you may perhaps remember that I did so. But, I feel it extremely important that you understand what Rumi says, is really the Truth. There is a … Continue reading Poet’s Corner
Your mind can fly to great heights but your parrot-nature keeps you pecking on the ground collecting knowledge that burdens the soul. Unlearn everything and embrace madness! … I was prudent all my life from now on, I embrace madness. -RUMI- Source: “Rumi’s Little Book of Life” Translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin … Continue reading Poet’s Corner
Taste the joy of true faith and the temptations of this world will fade. -RUMI- Source: “Rumi’s Little Book of Life” Translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin Continue reading Poet’s Corner
Empty yourself of yourself and contemplate the words that spring from the silence of God. -RUMI- Source: “Rumi’s Little Book of Life” Translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin Photography ©Amy Rose Continue reading Poet’s Corner
Ask God for love not for life ask God for soul food not for bread. -RUMI- Source: “Rumi’s Little Book of Life” Translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin ~Photography ©Amy Rose~ Continue reading Poet’s Corner
The beautiful ones mirror God’s Beauty and to love beauty is to love Him. -RUMI- Source: “Rumi’s Little Book of Life” Translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin Photography ©Amy Rose Continue reading Poet’s Corner
But listen to me: for one moment, quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. –RUMI– Source: “The Essential Rumi” Translated by Coleman Barks Continue reading Poet’s Corner
Love is the water of Eternal Life; when you enter that immense sea, you will know that each drop of it brims with Life. –RUMI– “Rumi’s Little Book of Love” by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin Photography ©Amy Skalski Continue reading Poet’s Corner
I filled the garden with candles tonight, set the table with wine and sweets and called the musicians. How I wish that you could be here! –RUMI– “Rumi’s Little Book of Love” by Maryam Marfi and Azima Mekita Kolin Continue reading Poet’s Corner
Farther and Farther from Zero Suddenly, I fall from the pavilion into a place where I see the ugliness, hypocrisy, rouge on a sunken face, a thorn lodged in a kidney, the blind crone holding a laurel wreath for the winner, her black ribbons in shreds, her eyes dark with pruple, a gold anklet on … Continue reading Poet’s Corner
I would love to kiss you. The price for kissing is your life. Now my loving is running toward my life shouting, What a bargain, let’s buy it. –RUMI– Source: “A Year with Rumi” by Coleman Barks Photography ©Amy Skalski Continue reading Poet’s Corner
No one could solve my dilemma nor could they tell me where I come from. Now, lost at the crossroads my heart bleeds, wondering which way is home. –Rumi– Source: “Rumi’s Little Book of Love” by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin Photography ©Amy Skalski Continue reading Poet’s Corner
BELLY DANCER Most poets are like a belly dancer who never reveals anything below her waist … I won’t tease you like that for I love when your eyes get e x c i t e d . –RUMI– [“Love Poems from God” Daniel Ladinksky] (Now, IF this does not wake you up, I don’t … Continue reading Poet’s Corner … Good Morning!
[“Love Poems of Rumi” edited by Deepak Chopra translated by Deepak Chopra and Fereydoun Kia] Continue reading Poet’s Corner
AROUSED PASSION Oh God Let all lovers be content Give them happy endings Let their lives be celebrations Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love My sweetheart You have aroused my passion Your touch has filled me with desire I am no longer separate from you These are precious moments I beseech … Continue reading For Those of You Who Missed Rumi
“THE AGONY OF LOVERS” The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces where they have been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God. –Rumi– (“The Love Poems of Rumi” edited by Deepak Chopra translated by Deepak Chopra and Fereydoun Kia) Continue reading Poet’s Corner
Oh! Supreme Lover! Let me leave aside my worries. The flowers are blooming with the exultation of your Spirit. –Rumi– Continue reading Poet’s Corner
We are the night ocean with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the moon, while we sit here together. –Rumi– Continue reading Poet’s Corner
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 art. –Rumi– Continue reading Poet’s Corner
Generations upon generations pass, yet the moon is the same. Times and people change but the essence of wisdom and justice is the same. –Rumi– Continue reading Poet’s Corner
Faulty eyes see the moon double and that gazing in perplexity is like a question; once you connect with Divine Light the question and the answer become one. –Rumi– (I must have been half awake doing this. I signed my name instead of Rumi’s. Oops!) Continue reading Poet’s Corner
God has graced you with vision that can help you find your way to the Light. –Rumi– Continue reading Poet’s Corner
In Heaven On Earth 