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Today, Sunlight offers Ghazal 1022, From Rumi's "Diwan-e Shams", in a poetic version by Coleman Barks, and in the translation by A.J. Arberry upon which Professor Barks based his version:
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Yesterday at dawn, my Friend said, How long
will this unconsciousness go on?
You fill yourself with the sharp pain of Love,
rather than its fulfuillment.
I said, "But I can't get to You!
You are the whole dark night,
and I am a single candle.
My life is upsidedown
because of You!"
The Friend replied, I am your deepest being.
Quit talking about wanting Me!
I said, "Then what is this
restlessness?
The Friend, Does a drop
stay still in the Ocean?
Move with the Entirety,
and with the tiniest particular.
Be the moisture in an oyster
that helps to form one pearl.
-- Version by Coleman Barks
"Like This,"
Maypop, 1990
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Yesterday at dawn passing by the Beloved said to me, "You
are distraught and unaware; how long will this go on?
My cheek is the envy of the rose; and have you filled your eye
with heart's blood in quest of the thorn?"
I said, "Before your stature the cypress is but a sapling!" I said,
"Before your cheek the heavens' candle is dark!"
I said, "Sky and earth are topsy-turvy on account of you; it is
no wonder therefore, if I have no access to you."
He said, "I am your soul and heart; why are you distracted?
Say no word, and remain weeping against my silvery bosom."
I said, You who have robbed my heart and soul of repose, I
have not the power to be still." He said at once,
"You are a drop of my sea; why do you utter still? Become
drowned, and fill the soul of the oyster shell with pearls."
-- Translation by A.J. Arberry
Mystical Poems of Rumi 1
The University of Chicago Press 1968/1991
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