Restless Soma
Old World (public) => Poems => Topic started by: Nichi on November 10, 2009, 11:13:18 AM
-
Coleman Barks
http://www.youtube.com/v/IZqAnIp5dMQ&hl=en&fs=1
Only Breath (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=IZqAnIp5dMQ&feature=related)
Only Breath
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion
or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,
am not an entity in this world or in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any
origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.
Rumi