How Very Close Your Soul with Mine ~Rumi~

Recited by Sina from book of Rumi fountain of fire , by Nader Khalili , original music by Hamoon Tehrani..

DON’T LET HE CLOUDS COMMIT MURDER

Mothers are the ones make a man, a man.
Lightness goes in front of us.
Did not a mother give birth to you too?
Don’t kill the mothers Messieurs!
Don’t let the clouds commit murder.

A six year old boy is running,
His kite is going through the trees.
You have run like this once upon a time.
Don’t kill the children Messieurs!
Don’t let the clouds commit murder.

Brides comb their hair in the mirror,
Searching for someone in it
Of course you were searched like this too
Don’t kill the brides Messieurs!
Don’t let the clouds commit murder.

In old age one should remember only
The sweet memories
It’s a shame, don’t kill the elders
Messieurs, you are old ones too…
Don’t let the clouds commit murder.

~Nazim Himet~ 1955 –Translated by Emine Dilek

Synthesis

A Book of Torture Methods
This stone tablet
But where printed
In Babylon
In Babylon then there is a child
One who uses and uses us
But we are not this
That greets us
On the very first pages
The eyes of another
The mouths,the lips of another
Printed in Babylon
Onto our lives
As they open out
One by one

Ece Ayhan (translated by Neil Doherty)

WHILE I LOOK IN YOUR EYES

While I look in your eyes
Sun scented soil is dizzying my head
In an outfield, among the grains
I am lost
An endless abyss with green sparkles
Like the ever-changing matter, your eyes
Gives away its secrets bit by bit each day
But
Will never surrender



Nazim Hikmet
Translated by Emine Dilek

COME

I know we don't have anyhting to talk about
But take your eyes with you and come
The wound in your hand
Your silence
Your dilettante
I don't believe if someone loves me
If someone loves you
You'll be ashamed
Even as if carrying pitty for an unknown illness, still come
I know we don't have anyhting to talk about
But you have my sorrow, make sure you bring that too, and come...


Cezmi Ersoz
Translated by Emine Dilek

LIKE THIS ~by RUMI~

If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all your sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,
Like this.

When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say
like this?

If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is,
or what "Gods fragrance" means,
lean your head towards her or him,
keep your face there close.
Like this.

When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.
Like this?

If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don't try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.
Like this, like this.

When someone asks what it means
to "die for love" point
Here.

If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your fingers the space
between the creases on your forhead
This Tall.

The soul sometimes leaves the body, then returns.
When someone doesnt believe that,
walk back into my house.
Like this.

When lovers moan,
they're telling our story
Like this.

I am a sky where spirits live,
stare into this deepening blue,
while the breeze says a secret
Like this

When someone asks what there is to do,
light the candle in his hand
like this.

How did Joseph's scent come to jacob?
like this.

How did Jacob's sight return?
Huuuuuuuu.

A little wind cleans the eyes.
like this.

When Shams come back from Tabriz,
he'll put just his head around the edge
of the door to surprize us.
Like this.

EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON YOU

You are as heavy as the ground pulls you,
As light as your wings flutter..
You are as alive as your heart beats,
As young as your eyes see distance...
You are as good as the people you love,
As bad as the people you hate..
Whatever the color of your eyebrows and your eyes are,
Your color is what the one facing you sees..
Don't think that what you lived is what you gained:
You are as close to the end as you lived; however long you live,
Your life is as long as you love..
You are as happy as you can smile.
Don't be sad, know that you will smile as much as you cry
Don't think that everything is over,
You will be loved as much as you love.
The value nature gives you is in the rise of the sun
And you are as human as the value you give to the one facing you.
If you will lie one day;
Let the one you address believe you as much as the trust for you.
The longing for the loved one is in the moon light,
And you are as close to your love as you long for.
Don't forget, you are as wet as it rains,
As warm as the sun warms you.
You are as alone as you feel alone
And as strong as you feel strong.
You are as beautiful as you feel beautiful..
This is life!
This is living,
You live as much as you remember this
When you forget this, you feel as cold as every breath you take
And you are forgotten as soon as you forget
A flower is as beautiful as it is watered,
Birds are as sweet as they chitter,
A baby is as baby as it cries.
And you know everything as much as you learn, learn this as well,

YOU ARE LOVED AS MUCH AS YOU LOVE...

~Can Yücel