Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - Whoever finds love

Aug 07, 2015 12:46

English version by Coleman Barks

Whoever finds love
beneath hurt and grief
disappears into emptiness
with a thousand new disguises

-- from The Essential Rumi, Translated by Coleman Barks
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amaebi August 7 2015, 22:12:42 UTC
Yo my surprise, I find this meaningless.

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bobby1933 August 7 2015, 23:04:44 UTC
1) That's o.k., its Rumi
2) I am thinking about the fragment and your reaction to it,

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amaebi August 7 2015, 23:11:55 UTC
(1) I usually fell with Rumi! :D
(2) I'll be interested to hear how you read the poem fragment.

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bobby1933 August 8 2015, 05:00:14 UTC
So i read the commentary which i had not seen It confirmed my own sense of the poem. The last para graph was of little, but some, help ( ... )

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