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Blogs > MasterArcan > Arcan's Corner

you and I.... - A Poem of Rumi  

MasterArcan 71M
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6/2/2013 3:18 am
you and I.... - A Poem of Rumi

I give you this poem by the great Sufi mystic and poet, Rumi, born in 1204. (More information follows....)

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"Seated here attached to the present of this royal place

We are singing joy, you and I.

Two in form two in figure, two to the outward eye

We're one in one, you and I.

The grove's verdant green picked in birdsong

Treats us kindly with a trace of eternity

As we enter the garden, you and I.

The unnumbered eyes of the stars gaze on us,

We turn on them the moon's face, you and I.

You and I, refined with joy, more than you and I

Set apart from the dross of empty words, you and I,

We are, you in I and I in you, the envy of gorgeous

Birds of paradise when we melt in secret laughter,

You and I, the mystery is you and I as we sit

Together in this royal place, yet in this cusp

Of being in the shade of common bliss we are one

You and I,

You and I,

We are at once in Iraq and Khorasan

You and I."

Divan 322

From Words of Paradise, Selected<b> poems </font></b>of Rumi

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Here is a bit of background. I never much liked poetry - I was almost always a prose man. I wrote prose - mostly non-fiction - edited prose and actually never much understood poetry or how to write it.

So I just ignored it. Several years ago, I was fortunate to have the acquaintance of a rather good poet. She insisted that I read the<b> poems </font></b>she felt would resonate within me - which I was subsequently told was how to get 'into' poetry.

I found that certain<b> poems </font></b>and poets *did* resonate within Me.

Since then, every once in a long while, I read something that just strikes Me in a certain way and I find Myself returning back to it over and over and over again.

This is one of those times.

Besides for, say, science fiction, anything psychological, detective novels etc., I also have a great fondness for anything historical and ancient.

One day I came across the works of Rumi and was entranced.

Here is My favorite work of his, a poem. Simple, clear and yet lush with imagery.

And all about the only important subject for any of U/us: you and I....

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