Thursday, August 06, 2009

[Sunlight] Live a fresh story -- Quatrain 1521

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Today, Sunlight offers two interpretations of Quatrain 1521:

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It's good to leave each day behind,
like flowing water, free of sadness.
Yesterday is gone and its tale told.
Today new seeds are growing.

-- Translation by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999

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happiness is to reach
the next post every day
like flowing water
free from stillness
and melancholy
yesterday is gone and
took away its talk
today we must live
a fresh story again

--Translation by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
Cal-Earth Press, 2001

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