Again I've gone with a poem from the Knopf poem-a-day offerings. This one arrived on Tuesday, and as soon as I read
my heart
is a pen
in your hand
it is all
up to you
to write me happy or sad
I knew this one of those poems I wanted to store someplace safe to read and re-read.
Please... read the rest of "Only You" by Rumi. There's a brief bio of the poet along with the poem as well.
5 comments:
Thank you, I love this.
Rumi rocks my gypsy soul. I put up the whole poem. Thanks for mentioning the Knopf poem of the day...
What a wonderful introduction to Rumi. Thanks!
(Let's try that again, shall we, but without the glaring typo?!)
That's a really fascinating and intriguing poem. However, I'm not sure that I approve of the suggestion that the poem's narrator can only be what another (their beloved?) makes them... But I guess that's because I come from a rather different tradition to Rumi. Anyway, thank you for sharing - I shall be chewing on that one for a while now...
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