Poems ✍️

  12.04.2026
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Author: Michael Shepherd

In The Spirit Of Rumi - 15

To My Beloved I said



O My Beloved,
tell me of Yourself;
I yearn to know



My Beloved said



O my dearest one,
tell me, rather, of yourself;
for only in knowing yourself
and knowing what you do not know
may you know Myself



to My Beloved I said



I breathe; and yet
I was never taught to breathe.


I breathe perfectly;
who taught me then, to breathe?



In the light of the Sun,
I see all that may be seen;
who taught my eyes to see?
who taught the Sun to shine?



With my breath,
with my eyes,
I see love, breathe love in my heart;
who put it there?



Every day, I eat,
every day I need to eat;
every day there is some food;
who makes earth into bread?



Every day I make mistakes,
yet every day I live again;
my children I forgive their mistakes;
who will teach me my mistakes,
who will forgive me my mistakes?



Every day I find my world the greater,
every day my powers are greater;
every day the world’s glory is greater;
who made these boundaries to be boundless?



Every day, I think of death;
every day, I am alive;
every day, I seek the truth;
who joins these three, and who divides?



my Beloved said to me



In your questions, love.
In the answer, love.




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