#rubai poems on Hello Poetry

Ceyhun Mahi Oct 2021

I heard a silky voice, deep in the night,
Between a moon and face had been my sight.
A dusk-haired girl, perhaps perfumed with musk,
Had said to me: ''don't hurry to get right.''

#quatrain #rubai #inspiration #wisdom #wise

Ceyhun Mahi Oct 2021

Same

For long I was not certain of my name.
This anxious soul of mine I could not claim.
Since birth, from form to form my frame has changed,
But still, I always have been just the same.

#existentialism #rubai #quatrain

Ceyhun Mahi Oct 2021

Today

Today I want to weep, and all day long,
To sing my feelings through a woeful song.
I have some words, hidden within my heart,
They cannot seem to flow from off my tongue.

#quatrain #rubai #weeping #sadness

Ceyhun Mahi Aug 2021

Quatrain

Just look, how easy do those small birds fly,
Over the things which make us always cry.
Flying away into the pathless spaces,
There is no grief or pain within the sky.

#rubai #quatrain

Ceyhun Mahi Aug 2021

Quatrain

My words are sharp like stings of bees in spring,
But I will die lastly when I shall sting.
I have become a nightingale right now,
To only sooth the hearts, I now shall sing.

#quatrain #rubai #poetry #verse #sing #singing

Ceyhun Mahi Aug 2021

Farsi Quatrain

یعقوب و یوسف و زلیخا عاشق
ای جان, سر ا پا, همه دنیا عاشق
بی مهر و محبتی, دو عالم مردست
هر زنده، که مخلوق خدا را، عاشق

Jacob, Joseph and Zuleikha (Potiphar's wife) are in love.
O soul, the whole world is from tip to toe in love.
Loveless people are in this world and hereafter dead,
Every living, creation of God is in love.

#rubai #farsi #quatrain #love

Ceyhun Mahi Jul 2021

Quatrain

My heart and eyes are so connected closely,
When we're apart, the two of us are lonely.
If others touched her beauty in the night,
It all would have been an illusion only.

#rubai #quatrain #illusion #love

Ceyhun Mahi Jun 2021

Before My Eyes

She's like a flower-scent before my eyes,
To other guys she went before my eyes.
A glance of chance it only was for me,
I don't know what she meant before my eyes.

#rubai #quatrain #eyes #unrequited #love

Ceyhun Mahi Apr 2021

Rubai

How easy do those small birds fly,
Over the things which make us cry,
And feel like the greatest burdens,
In the depths and peaks of the sky.

written in 2016.

#rubai #birds #flying #sky

Ceyhun Mahi Sep 2020

Farsi Rubai (with translation)

هر موج نگاه و خنده ها زیبا است
از یار سخن لب شفا زیبا است
ای دوست چه عجب که بیوفا زیبا است
این عشق و حال مبتلا زیبا است

Translation:

''Each wave of (her) glance and smiles is beautiful,
The words of the healing lips from the beloved are beautiful.
O friend, is it strange? that unfaithful beloved is beautiful,
This love and its state of suffering is beautiful.''

This is my first rubai (rhymed and metered) poem written in Farsi!

#farsi #rubai #rubaiyat #persian #iran #beautiful #beloved #love