Friday, March 06, 2009

[Sunlight] Amazed Mouth -- Ghazal 1296

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Amazed Mouth

The soul, a wide listening sky
with thousands of candles: when

anything is sold, soul gets given
in the cash: people waiting at a

door, a ladder leaning on a roof,
someone climbing down, the market

square bright with understanding.
Listening opens its amazed mouth.

-- Ghazal (Ode) 1296
Version by Coleman Barks
"The Soul of Rumi"
HarperSanFrancisco, 2001

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