Rumi

the moon has become a dancer
at this festival of love.
this dance of light,
this sacred blessing,
this divine love,
beckons us
to a world beyond
only lovers can see
with their eyes of fiery passion.

they are the chosen ones
who have surrendered.
once they were particles of light
now they are the radiaant sun.
they have left behind
the world of deceitful games.
they are the priveleged lovers
who create a new world
with their eyes of fiery passion.

translated by coleman barks



The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion.
~Thomas Paine


Queen Mab

'I am the Fairy MAB: to me 'tis given
The wonders of the human world to keep;
The secrets of the immeasurable past,
In the unfailing consciences of men,
Those stern, unflattering chroniclers, I find;
The future, from the causes which arise
In each event, I gather; not the sting
Which retributive memory implants
In the hard bosom of the selfish man,
Nor that ecstatic and exulting throb
Which virtue's votary feels when he sums up
The thoughts and actions of a well-spent day,
Are unforeseen, unregistered by me;
And it is yet permitted me to rend 180
The veil of mortal frailty, that the spirit,
Clothed in its changeless purity, may know
How soonest to accomplish the great end
For which it hath its being, and may taste
That peace which in the end all life will share.
This is the meed of virtue; happy Soul,
Ascend the car with me!'

P.B. Shelley


23/10/2007 9:00pm EST

The winds of change are here on my lips.
Brushing against my skin, stimulating my physical being
Now I can only speak what is born from a place of remembering.
I hold the storm at bay, as I am the storm and know full well the purpose of the storm. The eye of the storm, calm and mysterious but signaling change and confusion.
I embrace the coming rain and darkness as I have seen where we are traveling too again.
I remember dancing in the wind there, flying through the worlds with ease.
I know the experience of loving all beings that cross my magnetic filed.
It increases exponentially into the limitless capacity of the heart.
The heart holds the magic and the storm helps you to remember the path.