The Essential Rumi<\/i><\/a>, by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi. One of us read the last poem in the book to her.<\/p>\n***<\/p>\n
Say I am You<\/i>, by Jelaluddin Rumi<\/p>\n
I am dust particles in sunlight,
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I am the round sun.<\/p>\n
To the bits of dust I say, Stay.
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To the sun, Keep moving.<\/p>\n
I am morning mist,
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and the breathing of evening.<\/p>\n
I am wind in the top of a grove,
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and surf on the cliff.<\/p>\n
Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,
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I am also the coral reef they founder on.<\/p>\n
I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.
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Silence, thought, and voice.<\/p>\n
The musical air coming through a flute,
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a spark of stone, a flickering<\/p>\n
in metal. Both candle,
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and the moth crazy around it.<\/p>\n
Rose, and the nightingale
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lost in the fragrance.<\/p>\n
I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,
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the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,<\/p>\n
and the falling away. What is,
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and what isn't. You who know<\/p>\n
Jelaluddin, You the one
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in all, say who<\/p>\n
I am. Say I
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am You.<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
We'll miss you, Elena. It was a joy and an honor to know you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our neighbor and dear friend Elena Vialo died peacefully this morning after a short illness. Rest in Peace. These are some pictures from when she and her husband Gunnar came over for Christmas. Yesterday, we were visiting with her. Near the bed was a book of poems she liked, The Essential Rumi, by the thirteenth-century […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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