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The Essential Rumi
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“As the wind, when asked: ‘Who are you?’,
answers: ‘I am the moving limbs of a tree’,

and a tree, under the same question,
moving its limbs, says: ‘I am the wind’,

so, people think they are love,
and love, thinks it is people”
S.B. Joon, Not Knot Naught

“Poetry is the self-sacrifice of language,
slaughtering words for the sake of silence,

diminishing thought,
and making of philosophy, a foe

It is the cutting out,
of a beating heart,

needing not another moment,
to perceive that all things in love, are one”
S.B. Joon, Not Knot Naught

“You have read some books,
I am sure

Many of which, like a rainbow,
hide their pot of gold, around the end

But my good colors,
uncontrollably spill everywhere:

‘Waking up,
is dreaming,

for those
who love beginning now”
S.B. Joon, Not Knot Naught

“The heart,
that is a chimney,

releases only smoke,
when love is lucidly burned”
S.B. Joon, Not Knot Naught

“A disciplined touch of June,
summons Gautama’s sublime insight

July’s literal aphelion,
warms Francisco’s honest merriment

And when august starts to tick away,
Jelaluddin saunters around awake

Enduring a fatuous fatigue,
they are the silence we crave

They are the crescent-shaped fertility,
cradling the mewling of new humanity

They are Tigris, kissing Baghdad,
becoming tipsy on Algebra

The ephemeral telescope, Euphrates,
gazing at the Persian Gulf

And Nile, newspaper to Cairo,
overflowing with lush revelations

Who is who,
matters little in this mirror house

As love will shorten certainty,
to the most delightful doubt,

erecting aesthetic,
symmetric aphasia

They are the three of Pi,
we are what’s left behind the comma

Any decimal complaints,
move themselves more backward,

to become the circumferential pith,
birthing minor details”
S.B. Joon, Not Knot Naught

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