Table of Contents
Introduction vii
Let Love 3
Why paint night over nightless day? 4
Colorless, nameless, free 5
You shattered my cup 7
Just the other day 8
Your laughter turns the world to paradise 10
Don't think! 12
Who am I? Who is this I 13
Open your eyes to the four streams 15
Let's love each other 16
Salt dry land 17
I'm not that lion battling an enemy 19
You, leading the caravan, look at your camels 20
We exited the battleground and crooked valley of thorns 22
Where the water of life flows 24
Whatever the ways of the world 25
Friend, cave 27
How could I have known this longing would drive me mad 29
Here, it's spring, my friends 31
Ferment like wine 33
I saw myself sharp as a thorn 34
Sun and moon of mine, you've come 35
The moment you left me 36
The moon swooped down the dawn sky 37
I'm not that unrequited lover, so bitter I flee Love 39
If you quit thinking for one hour 41
Sufis arrive from the left and right 43
You found me once again 45
Lovers, why fear disgrace? 47
The spring of souls is here 49
I went to the doctor of the soul 51
Full of yourself 53
Take the cotton 54
Spring is here 55
Why plague your heart with indecision? 57
When I am, I am not 58
You wake the dead to life 59
Leave your tricks and schemes behind 61
The house overflows with drunkards 63
You're not a seeker? 64
For forty years, my mind drowned me in thought 65
Don't come without a drum 66
I don't know this nine-story house 67
You're ready for battle 69
Come out, come close! 70
Your naked freedom 72
This time, I am wrapped and entwined in Love 73
Music floats on wind 75
Between the curtains of blood 76
What else will a smiling bud do 78
Unless Love dyes you in its colors 79
I was a dust mote 80
If wheat sprouts from my grave 81
I am blasphemous and religious 83
Acknowledgments 84
Index of Poems 85
