Thursday, June 10, 2010
June 10: As I prepare to go to Fremont Correctional Facility, to give my writing workshop to men imprisoned there, I found a wonderful poem on www.poets.org, by the Sufi mystic, Rumi, and I share a morsel of it here and encourage you to go to poets.org, and type RUMI in the poet slot, and then click on the title of his poem.
What was told, that
by Jalalu'l-din Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks
"What was said to the rose that made it open was said
to me here in my chest."
Now, please, go discover this beautiful poem by Rumi.
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