I swear

I swear, since seeing Your face,
the whole world is fraud and fantasy
The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf
or blossom. The distracted birds
can't distinguish the birdseed from the snare.
A house of love with no limits,
a presence more beautiful than Venus or the moon,
a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart.

The Arrow of Love

I have been pierced by the arrow of love,
what shall I do ?
I can neither live, nor can I die.
Listen ye to my ceaseless outpourings,
I have peace neither by night, nor by day.
I cannot do without my Beloved even for a moment.
I have been pierced by the arrow of love,
what shall I do ?
The fire of separation is unceasing !
Let someone take care of my love.
How can I be saved without seeing her?
I have been pierced by the arrow of love,
what shall I do?

Only Breath

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion
or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,
am not an entity in this world or in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any
origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.

Rainy Season

It is the rainy season, I dig a canal;
In the hope of union I clap my hands.
The clouds are pregnant with drops of the sea of love;
I am pregnant with those clouds.
Don't say you are not a musician, clap your hands!
Come I will teach you how to become one.
So bright! Will you tell me whose house is that?
I love bright houses so!
Alas! I hide my own water of life
As oil drops cover the surface of water

Prevod IZ ŠOLSKIH ZVEZKOV, 1963

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, znan tudi kot Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā in Mevlevî/Mawlawī, bolj popularno znan kot Rumi (1207 – 1273), pesnik, hanefijski fakir, islamski učenjak, teolog in sufijski mistik. Rumijev vpliv presega nacionalne meje in etnične delitve: Iranci, Tadžiki, Turki, Grki, Paštuni, drugi srednjeazijski muslimani in muslimani indijske podceline so zelo cenili njegovo duhovno zapuščino. Njegove pesmi so prevedene v številne svetovne jezike in prenesene v različne forme. Rumi je bil opisan kot "najbolj priljubljen pesnik" in "najbolj prodajan pesnik" celo v Združenih državah.

Rumijeva dela so večinoma napisana v perzijščini, občasno pa je v svojih verzih uporabljal tudi turški, arabski  in grški jezik. Njegov Masnavi (Mathnawi), velja za eno največjih pesmi v perzijskem jeziku. Njegova dela so danes široko brana v svojem izvirnem jeziku v Iranu in perzijsko govorečem svetu. Prevodi njegovih del so zelo priljubljeni, predvsem v Turčiji, Azerbajdžanu, ZDA in Južni Aziji. Njegova poezija ni vplivala samo na perzijsko literaturo, ampak tudi na literarne tradicije turškega, čagatajskega, urdujskega, bengalskega in paštu jezikov. 

Čestitam, Marko.

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breath breathing human being, da bo bolj v skladu z naslovom pesmi in Rumijevo mislijo.

moj namig: samo dih sem, ki v človeku biva.

lepo bodi               , pozdrav od Ra.j.