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| Our drunkenness does not come from wine. The joy of our gathering does not come from the harp or rubaab.
With no celestial beauty to fill our cup,
Without friends, without singing, without wine, We burst out like madmen, rolling drunk on the floor. ~ Rumi Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva A Garden Beyond Paradise Bantam Books, 1992 |
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Thursday 16 August 2012
Our drunkenness does not come from wine...by Rumi
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We don't need wine to get drunk,
ReplyDeleteor instruments and singing to feel ecstatic.
No poets, no leaders, no songs,
yet we jump around totally wild.
~ Rumi
Version by Coleman Barks
"Unseen Rain"
Threshold Books, 1986
I don't really need wine
ReplyDeleteto get drunk
I don't really need music
to feel delight
Without a wine pal
music and dance
I'm intoxicated
happy and gone
~ Rumi
Translation by Nader Khalili
Rumi, Dancing the Flame
Cal-Earth Press, 2001