BS: Where Everything is Music

Subject: BS: Where Everything is Music
From: GUEST,Wordless Woman
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 09:40 AM

I came across this poem today and wanted to share it.

"Where Everything Is Music"

Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn't matter.

We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.

The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world's harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.

So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.

This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.

Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!

They derive
from a slow and powerful root
that we can't see.

Stop the words now.
Open the window in the center of your chest,
and let the spirits fly in and out.

-- Jalaluddin Rumi

Translated by Coleman Barks.

Subject: RE: BS: Where Everything is Music
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 09:55 AM

WOW!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Where Everything is Music
From: mack/misophist
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 10:24 AM

Some of those Persian guys were really good. Hafiz, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Where Everything is Music
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Aug 03 - 09:35 PM

Thanks for posting that.