Category: Poetry

  • Go on! Go on!

    This week will be the last of my first year of being on my own, and I’m being reminded of that anniversary in numerous ways – including my yearlong subscription to this daily dose of Rumi (with the running question of whether the translations are faithful).  I signed up for this because of the Omer Project…

  • Three weeks into a new life…

    I signed up for a course put out by Daily Om – A Year of Rumi and this arrived in my inbox today: Lesson 7: The Treasure Revealed Destroy your own house, destroy it now! Don’t wait one more minute! Pull the whole house down! A treasure greater than Pharaoh’s is hidden under it. Go…

  • Big Brother Poetry…

    We found two pieces of paper in S’s red folder (the folder that facilitates communication between home and school).  Dad had read them already, and was upstairs doing the bedtime routine when I found them. I read these in the kitchen, while cleaning up the dinner dishes, and couldn’t stop laughing! S said from upstair,…