Not Intrigued With Evening

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207 (Balkh) – 1273 (Konya )



What the material world values does
not shine the same in the truth of the soul.

You have been interested
in your shadow. Look instead directly at the sun.

What can we know by just
watching the time-and-space shapes of each other?

Someone half awake in the night sees imaginary dangers;

the morning star rises; the horizon grows
defined; people become friends in a moving caravan.

Night birds may think
daybreak a kind of darkness, because
that's all they know.

It's a fortunate
bird who's not intrigued with evening,
who flies in the sun we call Shams.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX XX XX X XX XXX XXA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 553
Words 99
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. more…

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