Dazed by the marvel of love our whirling endures






Love is that that never sleeps,







nor even rests, nor stays







for long with those that do.







Love is language







that cannot be said,







or heard.







The mystic dances in the sun,

hearing music others don't.







"Insanity," they say, those others.

If so, it's a very gentle,

nourishing sort.




poems from Birdsong, Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, Maypop 1993


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