Rumi - Love Poems
Rumi - Love Poems
- O Love
- Draw it now from Eternity's jar
- Let Me be Mad
- The Beauty of the Heart
- When the Rose is gone
- With Passion
- Love is the cure
- One Swaying Being
- I throw it all away
- Love
- The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Behind the Scenes
- My Burning Heart
- Defeated by Love
- Do You Love Me ?
- I am and I am Not
- The Meaning of Love
- The Privileged Lovers
"It is love and it is the lover
that are enduring for time without end;
don't put anything except this upon your heart,
since it isn't but something borrowed."
Ghazal 455
Rumi tells us the supreme secret of the inner journey is the path of love.
If we can possess our whole heart with contemplation of the beloved we will experience the wonders and beauty of the universe as Rumi says:
"The beauty of the heart
is the lasting beauty:
its lips give to drink
of the water of life."
"Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love
as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”
The intoxication of Rumi’s "divine romance" spill over into his poems. Rumi cries:
“O incomparable Giver of life, cut reason loose at last!
Let it wander grey-eyed from vanity to vanity.
Shatter open my skull, pour in it the wine of madness!
Let me be mad, as You; mad with You, with.”
Ultiamtely Rumi tells us the divine love is so all embracing it leads to extinction of the ego.
" The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil.
The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. "
Rumi Links
- Love poems of Rumi
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- Mystical Poems of Rumi
- Odes of Rumi
- Rumi Wisdom
- Rumi Homepage
- Sufi Poets
Rumi's dazzling portrayal of divine intoxication is reminiscent of great Hindu Bhakti yogis such as Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Chaitanya. It is a reminder that this experience is universal, the all embracing divine love cannot be contained by any sectarian form. The only goal is experience of the Beloved, or in Rumi’s words:
“ Possess the heart in love. ”