Tag Archives: Rumi

Listen for Silence

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Unshaken by Time

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The Past Life of K

  I was with you And I was so afraid of the silence And the mistakes we made But I followed you into safety Or what I thought was safe   And we went up a mountain To a place … Continue reading

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I Can Hear the Teapot Whistle

The kitchen table Is littered with dead roses And a spray of thistle   The whole day Has an undertow That belongs to someone else   Sadness is not what you meant To bring here   I find myself Entwined … Continue reading

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Tick Tock

There is a reason for the hush In the atmosphere You can almost see Everything stop from here The traffic, the people All thought Of the future You stand there staring At the clock Cut through every suture That used … Continue reading

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Dance With Me

Your funny crooked walk And the way you call people By the wrong names The way you talk too loud In public places And make the best funny faces   Dance with me backwards Dance with me forwards Dance with … Continue reading

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Me Too

I. She penetrated the jungle On a mission To bring people what they didn’t know They wanted   The blood of a sacrifice The wine of one anointed The whole haunted history of the West She came to install it … Continue reading

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To Capture the Sun

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Binge-Watch

Never keep your message taped In a place you thought you could encrypt Nothing in the universe can erase The strange archaic script Where you are kissing the guru Where you are doing what you do In the movie version … Continue reading

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The Threat of Song

What words form this lexicon Where you were here but You are gone   The threat of song The spoken cry The voice that fails itself As the feeling swells to rise Dying alive In the throat   And so … Continue reading

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