Blogs about: Coleman Barks
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Joy Is Your Essence
As translated by Coleman Barks, Rumi says: In the last hour before morning lover and beloved awake and take a drink of water. She asks, “Do you love me or yourself more? Really, tell the absolut… more →
The Rumi Secret
heart opened like a rose
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wrote 1 week ago: almost two years since my heart opened like a rose wild imaginings now I stalk the dawn open palms w … more →
"What nine mont...
wrote 1 week ago: The mosque Hassan II at dawn, Casablanca, Morocco (Photo credit: Milamber’s portfolio) “ … more →
Secret places inside this violent world
wrote 2 weeks ago: Time for some more of Rumi’s poetry, again in the translation of Coleman Barks, from Bridge to … more →
Proper Priorities
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Above: Some of the Possessions of Charles Foster Kane, from Citizen Kane (A Screen Capture) +++++++ … more →
Nasuh
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Some time ago there was a man named Nasuh He made his living shampooing women in a bathhouse He had … more →
With the help of Santa Cruz's Barry and Shelley Phillips, Coleman Barks unlocks the magic of Rumi
wrote 1 month ago: { APRIL 22 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. $18 advance; $22 at the … more →
Look for the helpers
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wrote 1 month ago: Our nation is saddened by the tragedy that took place at the finish line of the Boston Marathon toda … more →
Coleman Barks in action!
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wrote 1 month ago: Coleman Barks: though his renderings of Rumi’s poetry take some liberties with the original, h … more →
Rumi and Coleman Barks: ambassadors of peace
wrote 2 months ago: Apparently, Rumi is the most widely read poet in America today. Why then does WordPress’s spell chec … more →
Best Reads 2013. VI: Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
wrote 2 months ago: This book, indeed Rumi generally, has been a revelation to me. As I have said elsewhere, I had come … more →
Narrator – εἰς τὴν Πόλιν on the way to “this”
wrote 2 months ago: My third incarnation as Bhikṣu or – in the words of everyday life – as wanderer who followed the ann … more →
A pointer to pure being
wrote 2 months ago: Having enjoyed poetry when I went to school, I somehow never followed this up, until fairly recently … more →
Architectures speak of the joy the soul is here for
wrote 2 months ago: Great architectural forms like cathedrals and mosques, precarious Himalayan monasteries, standing st … more →
Island Poetry Workshop, April 11-14
wrote 2 months ago: Nancy Greenaway, owl poet, is passing along the website of the Block Island Poetry Project and detai … more →
Vulnerability is the moat that I cannot cross
wrote 2 months ago: Happy International Women’s Day! I have been obsessing with trying to let go and allow myself … more →
Rumi and Breathing
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wrote 2 months ago: ~~~ Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings… Rumi “In the mid-t … more →
Veterinarian, teacher and poet
wrote 2 months ago: Dr. Richard Barsaleau, a veterinarian and noted equestrian who championed care for horses as a compe … more →
The Guest House
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wrote 2 months ago: This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, som … more →
Coleman Barks w/Robert Bly
wrote 3 months ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X3_wYlpnRo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJjuTNVs9MI … more →
