Lovely poem of San Juan de la Cruz, set to music by Enrique Morente https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MSSG8h5j5g Translation: Song of the Soul that /delights in knowing God through Faith How well I know the spring, that flows and runs Although it is in the night That eternal spring is hidden How well I know where…
In Jerusalem…
Mahmoud Darwish In Jerusalem BY MAHMOUD DARWISH TRANSLATED BY FADY JOUDAH In Jerusalem, and I mean within the ancient walls, I walk from one epoch to another without a memory to guide me. The prophets over there are sharing the history of the holy … ascending to heaven and returning less discouraged and melancholy, because love and…
The Troubadour of Love
Translation: The troubadour of love has such a wonderful voice and song Every melody in his repertoire has a path to a place May the world never be empty of the cry of lovers Because it has a sweet and joyful voice Although our dreg-draining Pir has neither…
Rumi-Looking for a true human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs1StI9E71M Translation: Show your face, for the orchard and rose garden is what I long for Open your lips, for heaps of sugar are what I long for O Sun of beauty, come out of the cloud for a moment For that shining, radiant face is what I long for From your air, I…
Between you and me…
al-Ḥallāj Translation: Is it you or me? In this there are two gods yet You forbid, You forbid affirming duality Your selfhood is in my negation eternally My all clothes the all in two respects So where is your self [hidden] from me when I see? For my self became clear where there’s no…