RUMI - "Here, It's Spring, My Friends" Translated, recited, & sung by Haleh Liza Gafori 

Recited in English, with a dash sung in Persian...
from the book GOLD Poems by Rumi, Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
New York Review Books/Penguin Random House
You can find a copy at local bookstores or online at all booksellers.
Link to GOLD:
www.penguinran...
"Here, it's spring, dear friends.
Let's make our home in the cypress grove
and wake our sleepy destiny
till it surges skyward like these trees --
aliens rising out of the grass.
Just like them
we are bound to the ground heading to groundless ground
where the soul flows nameless and free.
Here, let's take our bound souls there.
New leaf on the branch, you burst through the bark.
Tell us how to break out of our cage.
Cypress tree, you tunneled through darkness blind
and blasted through the soil.
What map was in your mind?
Tell me, I'll follow.
A flower steps out of its tight bud,
gives its nectar, gives its gold.
How do we do the same? ..."
-Rumi
Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
Filmed at the Launch Party Bowery Poetry Club
Thanks to Bob Holman and Ram Devineni,
Videographer: Ed Fabry
Next event:
3/31/22 at The Atlantic in Brooklyn
Tickets:
www.atlanticbk...