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This we Have Now

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



This we have now
is not imagination.

This is not
grief or joy.

Not a judging state,
or an elation,
or sadness.

Those come and go.
This is the presence that doesn't.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme XA XX XAX XX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 166
Words 34
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3, 2

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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