Wednesday, July 29, 2009

OMG it is Wednesday Already - Poetry!

Sorry Poetry fans. I think my poetry of late has been of the visual kind. Pictures of flowers and clouds and sunsets and sunrises. No doubt soon it will all digest itself and produce a poem or two but for the moment I am all eyes! And camera lenses. So I am posting a favorite poet of mine: Rumi. And a poem new to me which appealed because of the risks I have been taking in mud holes and narrow four wheel roads.

WHY CLING

Why cling to one life
till it is soiled and ragged?

The sun dies and dies
squandering a hundred lived
every instant

God has decreed life for you
and He will give
another and another and another

Rumi


If you have a poem for the tour this week (I generally ad them through Thursday) leave me a comment here or on Facebook or in Profiles.

4 comments:

  1. Rumi, is a good one to always go back to and re-read, Jacqui! The columbine picture is beautiful too.
    Keep shooting those pictures!

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  2. Wonderful Rumi! This is a glorious poem.
    I like the picture of the flowers too.

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  3. Oh so true if we would stop and listen.

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  4. Rumi is another of my favourite poets.

    This week has slipped away from me also. Thus my reading your Wednesday blog on Saturday..sheesh, where does the time go?

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