First Post

Hello Readers,

Welcome to the blog "The Wings of the Simorgh". It is an attempt to bring poetry of Sufi poets to the blogosphere. Although I am aware there are already many blogs that do this, I thought it would be fun and informative to post poems and stories of poets. The poetry posted will many be of Persian Sufi poets, but if a poem that crosses me is profound, I will not hesitate from posting it here.

The first Poem here is by Rumi, called "Death as Wedding Day with the Beloved"

On the day I die, don’t weep.

Don’t say she’s gone/he’s gone.

Death has nothing to do with going away.

The moon sets and the sun sets,

but they’re not gone.

Death is a coming together.

The human seed goes down into the ground

like a bucket,

and come up with some unimaginable beauty!

Your mouth closes here

and immediately opens

with a shout of joy there!


This poem is dedicated to a friend who recently lost his father, this loss is unbearable, yet Rumi reminds us that death is not the end, it is merely the beginning.

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