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Thought For the Day: The Wound Is the Place Where the Light Enters You
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi
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Tagged Entrance, Light, Place, Rumi, Thought For the Day, Where, Wound
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Thought For the Day: Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice. It Is Rain That Grows Flowers, Not Thunder
“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi
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Tagged Flowers, Grow, Rain, Raise, Rumi, Thought For the Day, Thunder, Voice, Words
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Thought For the Day: Lovers Don’t Finally Meet Somewhere. They’re In Each Other All Along.
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
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Tagged All Along, Each, Final, In, Lovers, Meet, Rumi, Somewhere, They, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: In Your Light, I Learned How To Love
“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 sight becomes this art.” – Rumi
Dream Big Ghazal
Poem A Day #4 is to be of the Ghazal poetry form. Ghazals were originally popularized and written by such notables as Rumi and Hafiz of Persia. Through the influence of Goethe (1749–1832), the ghazal became very popular in Germany … Continue reading
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Tagged Babe Ruth, Courage, Daughters, Discourage, Distance, Dream Big, Dreams, Edison, Encourage, Father, Focus, Ghazal, Goethe, Home Run King, Little Girls, Locus, Love, Music, Nighttime, North Star, Nurture, Poem A Day, Poetry, Promise, Right Thing, Rumi, Science, Sing, Sleep, Star
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Daily Prompt – Belly
In Rumi’s pond, waded a pinkish flamingo Whose presence was as a belly dancer’s shadow The eye of Ra became its own perception of light As a sensuous beat flowed from the palace into the night Fatima dances while warding off … Continue reading
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Tagged Belly, Belly Dancer, Blind, Daily Prompt, Dance, Fables, Flamingo, Jealousy, Light, Lilith, Lotus, Mankind, Phoenix, Pond, Purification, Ra, Rebirth, Rumi, Unification
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Thought For the Day: Each of Us Is Created For A Particular Work
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi What then shall I do with my life, I once wondered. The problem was that every time I … Continue reading
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Tagged Avocation, Created, Desire, Everyone, Heart, Rumi, Thought For the Day, Vocation
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Garden Into Gateway
It is the 19th day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo. New day, new challenge. This one is to write a poem of any kind with any perspective pertinent to a ‘creation’ story. Many who know me would assume that I would ease over … Continue reading
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Tagged Calligraphy, Caravan, Creation, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Rumi, Stranger, The Divine, Womb
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Rumi’s Secret
Day 13 of the month long challenge was to write a ghazal. It’s a nice traditional Persian form that has lent itself to the English literary world. I wrote a poem or two off topic and now am coming … Continue reading
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Tagged Compulsion, Rumi, Secret Love, Shakespeare, Souk, Umayyad Mosque, Walt Whitman
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