If you like poetry , could you give me your idea about these poems of Rumi?

Toward the gardens,


Toward the orchards,


I am going.


If you want to stay here,


Stay here -


I am going!


My day is dark without His Face,


Toward that bright flame


I am going.





My soul is racing ahead of me.


It says, The body is too slow for me -


I am going.





The smell of apples arises


from the orchard of my soul.


One whiff and I am gone -


Toward a feast of apples


I am going.





A sudden wind won't blow me over.


Toward Him, like a mountain of iron,


I am going.





My shirt is ripped open


with the pain of loss.


Searching for a new life,


with my head held high,


I am going.





I am fire, though I seem like oil -


Seeking to be the fuel of His fire,


I am going.





I appear as a steady mountain


Yet bit by bit,


Toward that tiny opening


I am going.




















2-Look at Love...


Look at Love...


how it tangles


with the one fallen in love





look at spirit


how it fuses with earth


giving it new life





why are you so busy


with this or that or good or bad


pay attention to how things blend





why talk about all


the known and the unknown


see how unknown merges into the known





why think separately


of this life and the next


when one is born from the last





look at your heart and tongue


one feels but deaf and dumb


the other speaks in words and signs





look at water and fire


earth and wind


enemies and friends all at once





the wolf and the lamb


the lion and the deer


far away yet together





look at the unity of this


spring and winter


manifested in the equinox





you too must mingle my friends


since the earth and the sky


are mingled just for you and me





be like sugarcane


sweet yet silent


don't get mixed up with bitter words





my beloved grows


right out of my own heart


how much more union can there be

If you like poetry , could you give me your idea about these poems of Rumi?
Afshin A.,


Thanks for showing me that. I enjoy short poems. His style seems a bit disconnected to me. not that I am anyone to listen to. And that part about "look at your heart and tongue", perhaps that was a choice in the translation? I think that perhaps a better word than 'look' could have been used if it was drawn from a different language.





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Reply:that was a soso or how i say comme c comme ca (thats in french)


poem i trhink you could do better


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Reply:Seems Rumi is lost and don't know exactly where he is going.


Either or Heaven or Sheol. What other place could there be. If he knows where he is going, he would've stated it in a certain way, where the reader would catch it clearly based on his own certainty or uncertainty.





In heaven God is the consuming "fire" and in "hell" there are flaming fires as well, so it really is confusing. In contrast with the gardens or archards, they could be an illusion only.