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From: Storybrooke, Mr. Gold's Shop
Registered: Sep 2011

posted August 11, 2012 06:41 AM            

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Anyone have any favorite poets?

I'd like to avoid posting entire poems to avoid copyright issues, but you're welcome to post an excerpt if it is cited, and also links. You're also welcome to discuss why you like your favorites and what messages they teach.

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From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Apr 2009

posted September 06, 2012 07:13 PM            

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There are many but lately I have been indulging in Jalaluddin Rumi and Sa'd ud Din Mahmud Shabistari .

WINE, TORCH, AND BEAUTY

TRUTH'S manifestations
Are wine, torch, and beauty;
Wine and torch are the light and shining of the "knower,"
Beauty is concealed from none.
Wine is the lamp-shade,
And torch the lamp;
Beauty is the Spirit-light,
So bright, it kindles sparks
In the heart.
Wine and torch are the essence of that blinding light,
Beauty is the sign of the Divine.

Drink this wine and, dying to self,
You will be freed from the spell of self.
Then will your being, as a drop,
Fall into the ocean of the Eternal.

Shabistari

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We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and Knows
Robert Frost

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From: Storybrooke, Mr. Gold's Shop
Registered: Sep 2011

posted September 08, 2012 06:29 AM            

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