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Poems about life choices12/17/2023 ![]() Rumi’s lesson is that we should welcome and entertain all of these unexpected guests, for they all serve a purpose. Rumi uses the metaphor of the human being as a kind of ‘guest house’, which every day must accept new arrivals: joy, meanness, melancholy, and so on. Let’s conclude this pick of Rumi’s best poems with one of his best-known poems: ‘The Guest House’. Instead of complaining that we are fatigued, we should seek passion as the ultimate pick-me-up … Choices By: Raj Mathias There comes one moment in your whole life, Where you have to make a decision, This choice is neither wrong nor is right, And. Even the most wearied soul will find itself renewed by the magical ‘elixir’ that is passion: sensual desire and powerful feelings of love. This poem gives voice to this feeling of elation.ĩ. Love makes us feel ten feet tall and immortal, as though the whole world had been designed with us in mind. Here, the stars in heaven come out so they can look at the two lovers, rather than so that the lovers can look up at the stars. In two forms and with two faces – with one soul, Thou and I …’Ī garden, birdsong, and a feeling that one will live forever: what better way to convey the joyous paradise that is new love? ‘Joyful the moment when we sat in the bower, Thou and I Show mercy, and God will have mercy upon you. And in this short prayer, the poet makes a simple but effective argument: be good to God, and God will be good to you. It should come as no surprise that such a religious poet as Rumi wrote prayers, too. ![]() ‘May God have mercy on those who lead the wayĪnd those who come behind and those who fulfill their vows …’ The poet then goes on to list all of the things which God does for the individual – including giving us all a ‘kingdom’ beyond our wildest dreams. It challenges you to go out and live your life in the present moment as a hero and leave your mark on this world. Here’s one of Rumi’s best-known religious poems, which begins with an arresting rhetorical question: where will you find someone more liberal than God? A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This rhyming poem is the spark that can reignite the fires within you. Yes: even words can fail, and there’s a time to talk (and to write poems) and a time to succumb to ardent romantic and even sensual desire.Īnd gives you the Divine Fount sweeter than sugar …’ In this short lyric, Rumi privileges the burning passion of intense desire over the value of thought or words. ![]() Love is here figured as a way to come to God, but although Rumi is thinking of religious devotion, his reference to ‘love’ here appears to encompass other kinds of devotion, too: romantic love can also be a way to reach God, a form of worship. These two things are not mutually exclusive in his work, as this popular poem demonstrates. Much of Rumi’s poetry is about love and about God. ![]()
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