Feed on
Posts
Comments

Archive for the 'poetry' Category

NOT TOO SWEET

Posted in poetry, web media on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »


Read Full Post »

CHARLES OLSON

Posted in Charles Olson, outsider research, poetry on Oct 28th, 2007 No Comments »

I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You
HUMAN UNIVERSE
Introduction
There are laws, that is to say, the human universe is as discoverable as that other. And as definable.
The trouble has been, that a man stays so astonished he can triumph over his own incoherence, he settles for that, crows over it, and goes at a day again happy […]

Read Full Post »

I’M CONCEALED

Posted in Rumi, poetry, sufism on Oct 4th, 2007 No Comments »

I’m so close to you that I’m far apart,
So completely merged that I’m separate,
So vastly exposed that I’m concealed,
So whole and sound that I’ll never be healed.
#1121, from Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).
From translations of Rumi by Zara Houshmand

Read Full Post »

TO HIM IT’S ALL ONE

Posted in Rumi, poetry, sufism on Jul 20th, 2007 No Comments »

The friend to whom flower and thorn are one,
In whose faith, Koran and Cross are the same –
Why should we worry? To him it’s all one:
The swiftest horse or a donkey that’s lame.
#454: From Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).
Translated by Zara Houshmand

Read Full Post »