I am sure I have mentioned before that I love Rumi? There is a depth in his verses... they seem to be not on a cerebral but a spiritual plane... you do not understand his verses so much as sense their meaning...

That reminds me, and maybe this must be a topic for another blog. When I was really young, maybe not even all of 21 years old, and the internet had started becoming widespread in India... that was when I started getting exposed to a much wider range of reading material than my libraries had allowed. I mean, you couldn't wander and meander and discover one thing to another in the library as you could on the internet. That's when I discovered a lot of poets I didn't know about. I had read many of the great novelists growing up, but poets not so much. A friend of mine at the time who had studied English literature formally and who knew a lot of the academic jargon told me, when he found out which particular poems I was enjoying the most, that these were mostly from the 'metaphysical poets'. After that, I started searching for more from the metaphysical poets... I was reminded of this because Rumi is not counted among the traditional 'metaphysical poets' who are all part of a western movement, but I would think he would fall in that category? And that makes me wonder why it is that I am drawn to metaphysical poetry...

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other

doesn’t make any sense.

~ Translated from Persian by Coleman Barks and John Moyne from The Essential Rumi