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The Woeful Heart
The sorrow it feels
Overflows it own containment
Fills my body thoroughly
Trying to influence me
Reaching out for you
Just to catch hold of air
I swear
I wont cry
Bury my tears
A small away moment to us
According to my heart
Is actually many years
warm my heart til explosion
filled with all your
love compassion kindness happiness
i'm not saying mine is cold
i can do that
just to an extent
eh i get "warm"
but id rather to be warmed
with the warmth you produce
the harder my heart beats
the more I have to hear
of why that is
of who it is
of what even
but at the end
in the silence
body will be filled with the sound
the harder my heart beats
you keep my heart afloat
even when its being weighed
it knows to keep you happy
it has to
stay high
beating loud
for you to return to less
that just wont do
My attempt at a Rumi style poem
Maria Mitea Aug 2023
I don't know how it found  you, but
tonight is the full yellow moon,
it is shining like gold, and the grass is submissive,
the farmers are working hard, cutting it for the cows,

My real lover has come,
he returned, but
he is drunk,
and I don't know how to touch him,
I don't know how to kiss him,

My lover returned -
God is one, has no equal,
but, I don't know how to love  him,
Caresse him
relahxe Jul 2020
I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,
I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,
I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,
I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,
I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.
A quote by Rumi
Zywa Nov 2022
I'm whirling, whirling

around my heart, there's a gate --


it's the gate to love.
The Sama-ritual of the Sufis (whirling trance dance)

"Kärleken" ("Love", 2005, Jila Mossaed)

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s and 10s"
rk May 2022
under the velvet darkness
of those summer nights
you held me close to you
like a sacred song

rumi once said
that lovers do not finally meet
somewhere along the way
they are inside each other
all along

is that why your name
reawakened a fire in my blood
the moments our lips touched?
your kisses sweet
like the first new moon in the sky

i drank the honey from your lips
and realised how blind i'd been
to ever look for love
when you had lived inside me
in every lifetime.
- i wonder when you gaze at the stars, do they still sing my name?
Zywa Jan 2022
Like dust particles,

that's how our souls are dancing --


Can you see it now?
Ghazal 171 "A great wagon" part 5: "Daylight, full of small dancing particles" (13th century, Mohamed Rumi)

Collection "Germ Substance"
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
" i am in you and i am you. no one
can understand this until
he has lost his mind"
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