Rumi: We Are Three : New Rumi Poems

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Delicious Laughter: Rambunctious Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi of Jelaluddin Rumi by Coleman Barks. Maypop,1990

Delicious Laughter: Rambunctious Teaching Stories from the Mathnawi of Jelaluddin Rumi

Religion & Spirituality

BARKS, COLEMAN

Rumi, Jelaluddin

New Age & Spirituality

One of the meanings of "Adam" in Hebrew is like. implying "like God". A human being is a resemblance. Rumi opens the poetry of this. A man walking back into a house becomes the Resurrection. People dancing on the roof describe the constellations. The sight of a familiar head around the edge of a door is love returning to surprise the world. Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) is one of the world's great mystical poets. His life breaks exactly in two. During the first half ha was fairly conventional, and very learned, teacher in the colleges of Konya, Turkey. Then he met that Presence which is called Beloved, and also in this tradition, the Friend. In 1244 he encountered the powerful, wandering dervish, Shams of Tabriz. The mysterious Conversations they had (sohbet) opened Rumi into a deep Friendship with existence, and non-Existence, that became the spontaneous river of his poetry. That body of work is now being brought over, from Persian, into the strong tradition of American free verse by Coleman Banks, Robert Bly, W. S. Merwin, and other pots in concert with various scholarly sources.

Like This: 43 Odes

Rûmî

The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufismâ€”a mystic tradition within Islamâ€”Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Many of Rumiâ€™s poems speak of a yearning for ecstatic union with the divine Beloved. But his images bring the sacred and the earthy together in startling ways, describing divine love in vividly human terms. This volume draws on a wide variety of translationsâ€”from the early twentieth century to the presentâ€”of Rumiâ€™s deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry.

One-Handed Basket Weaving: Poems on the Theme of Work

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Lalla is a 14th century mystic, who was born in Kashmir. Her whole life is steeped in legend, along with tales of an unhappy marriage, and cruel treatment by her in-laws, and those of her devotion to God. This book presents her poems.

Naked Song

Lal Ded

Lalla

Stallion on a Frozen Lake: Love Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama

Gourd Seed: Poems

Birdsong: Fifty-Three Short Poems

Great Song: The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller

Biographies & Memoirs

Xenia: A Hoard of Lost Words, Eighteenth-Century Street Lingo, and a Few Completely Confabulated Terms Collected and Exemplified

History & Criticism

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