Spring Giddiness
RumiToday, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
I would love to kiss you.
The price of kissing is your life.
Now my loving is running toward my life shouting,
What a bargain, let’s buy it.Daylight, full of small dancing particles
and the one great turning, our souls
are dancing with you, without feet, they dance.
Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?
All day and night, music,
a quiet, bright
reedsong. If it
fades, we fade.
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Spring has arrived where we find abundance … of berries to get us giddy with delight?
And here’s an excerpt from a longer poem of Rumi’s that sinks in just as rain sinks into this earth to bring about all this abundance all around us, this spring:
… We began
as a mineral. We emerged into plant life
and into animal state, and then into being human,
and always we have forgotten our former states,
except in early spring when we slightly recall
being green again.
…
Humankind is being led along an evolving course,
through this migration of intelligences,
and though we seem to be sleeping,
there is an inner wakefulness
that directs the dream,and that will eventually startle us back
to the truth of who we are.”― Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Food photos courtesy of “Sakura” at International House, Tokyo:) Most beautiful Japanese garden to behold … sigh, sigh, sigh…Ohanami season is something to behold.