The Essence of Life ... in ONE Drop ... or "The Breath"

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♫ Mari Boine Persen - Vuoi Vuoi Mu, Idjagiedas ♫

 

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Vuoi Vuoi Me

 

 

Vuoi my little yellowbird

Vuoi my summernight bird

cuckoo and eagle

Vuoi my swallow

with nest under riverbanks

Vuoi nighttowl

with limitless vision

Vuoi vuoi me

 

Vuoi vuoi joy

with hearty laughter

Vuoi sorrow

with oceans of salty tears

Vuoi vuoi frost

winter and cold

Vuoi summer with burning hot days

Vuoi vuoi me

 

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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.

 

From Essential Rumi

by Coleman Barks

 

Source: peacefulrivers.homestead.com/Rumipoetry1.html

 

 

 

Done