Thursday, July 29, 2010

[Sunlight] A day beyond and above

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Today, Sunlight offers two interpretations of Quatrain 163:

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What is this day with two suns in the sky?
Day unlike other days,
with a great voice giving it to the planet,
Here it is, enamored beings, your day!

-- Version by Coleman Barks
"Unseen Rain"
Threshold Books, 1986

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what type of day is this
with two shining suns
a day beyond and above
every day known
a whirling cosmos is endowing
and calling everyone on earth
good news to those in love
call today your own

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

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