© Sheila Posner, Music at Sea, 2018
Where Everything is Music by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī
Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn't matter.
We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.
The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world's harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.
So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.
This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!
They derive
from a slow and powerful root
that we can't see.
Stop the words now.
Open the window in the centre of your chest,
and let the spirit fly in and out.
Poem Attribution © Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī,Where Everything is Music, Translated by Coleman Barks and John Moyne
Source Attribution https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/words-of-wonder/where-everything-is-music-rumi-2/
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Painting Attribution © Sheila Posner, Music at Sea, 2018
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