Saturday, July 19, 2014

Sacred Conversation

Till I resolve some technicalities, please see the videoclip here

The poets and I say Thank You for stopping by  :)



Why do you seek water

when you are the stream?









From "Rumi's"
Part One: Garden of the Soul
Translation Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin


  from the sparrow's notebook


Friday, July 18, 2014

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) : "The Divine Comedy"

    

       The glory of the One who moves all things

permeates the universe and glows

in one part more and in another less.

       I was within the heaven that receives 

more of His light; and I saw things that he

who from that height descends, forgets or can

       not speak; for nearing its desired end,

our intellect sinks into an abyss

so deep that memory fails to follow it.

       Nevertheless, as much as I, within

my mind, could treasure of the holy kingdom

shall now become the matter of my song.



From "The Divine Comedy"
Paradiso, Canto I
Everyman's Library
Translation Allen Mandelbaum (1926 - 2011)







Woodlands





The poet is right ... if He is fire i must be wood.




Woodlands, cover of the book
  from the sparrow's notebook