I have returned, like the new year (Rumi)
3 February 2010
I am posting Sunlight translations of Rumi’s Ghazal (Ode) 1375, from ”Diwan-e-Shamsi” (“The Collection of Shams”), rendered by Nader Khalili, and Prof. William Chittick:
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i’ve come again
like a new year
to crash the gate
of this old prison
i’ve come again
to break the teeth and claws
of this man-eating
monster we call life (more…)
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