Say I Am You : Poetry Interspersed with Stories of Rumi and Shams

by Rumi, Jalalu'l-Din

• ISBN13: 9781884237003
• ISBN10: 1884237002
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-01
• Publisher: MAYPOP BOOKS

Summary

The friendship between these two saints of the Sufi tradition was a continuous conversation, in silence and words, presence talking to absence, existence to non-existence, periphery to center. This collection features dozens of newly translated poems interspersed with legends and stories of their lives, presenting an intimate portrait of their communion and allowing readers to eavesdrop on their unique spiritual dialogue.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(3)
Sohbet
A Note on these Translations	12	(1)
Love Dogs	13	(1)
Majnun with Layla's Dog	14	(1)
Ten Quatrains	15	(3)
Spring	18	(2)
The Source of Joy	20	(1)
The One Thing You Must Do	21	(1)
Stories of Shams and Rumi	22	(5)
Which Way Does the Night Go?	27	(2)
Any Chance Meeting	29	(1)
Where Are All the Others?	30	(2)
Sultan Velad
Flag-Lions	32	(2)
Personal Intelligence	34	(1)
A Zero-Circle	35	(1)
The Sign of Being Dried-Up	36	(1)
Be Suspicious of Yourself	37	(1)
The Waterwheel	38	(1)
A Trace	39	(1)
What Hurts the Soul?	40	(1)
The Guest-House	41	(1)
Is This a Stage Set?	42	(1)
Solomon's Crooked Crown	43	(1)
Stories of Rumi and Shams	44	(4)
The Reed Flute's Song	48	(2)
The Animal Soul	50	(1)
The Womb	51	(1)
A Song of Being Empty	52	(1)
Needle and Thread	53	(1)
The Water You Want	54	(1)
The Reasonable Father	55	(1)
Hypothesis and Human Being	56	(1)
Polishing the Mirror	57	(2)
A Star Without a Name	59	(1)
Talking Through the Door	60	(2)
Burnt Kabob	62	(1)
Stories of Mevlana	63	(7)
Twenty-five Quatrains	70	(7)
Dear Soul	77	(1)
A Small Green Island	78	(1)
Sheba's Throne	79	(2)
Say I Am You	81	(1)
Some short poems found in Shams' Maqalat (Discourses) composed, probably	82	(2)
Rumi
Shams
How a Sheikh Is with a Community	84	(2)
Creator of Absence and Presence	86