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A Translation of Sepehri

من در اين آبادی، پی چيزی می گشتم :
پی خوابی شايد،
پي نوری، ريگی، لبخندی 

In this land, I am seeking something, to find:
A dream maybe,
A sparkle of light, a stone, or a smile

Sea of Light

Translated from the great Varqa

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It’s morn and the morning breeze
brings,
that spring scented wind
and I taste the fragrance of life
from my beloved's locks of hair

Rumi's "Dialog With The Soul"

Drowned I the sea of self in itself
Wonder what boundless sea that I am

This is the first poem I translated from Rumi.
Read full translation by clicking here.

Rumi - Death In Love

Embrace death, embrace death,
in this love, death embrace
in this love as death's embraced
all shall live receiving life
Accept death, accepting
Not fearing
Arise above the dust
And rise unto heaven
In death severe the self
That binds your self to yourself
Yourself enslaved, enchained
Take the axe and unchain
Shatter the cell, free that King
Beauteous king, that in death lives
in us all, as kings live
To die then is to descend
And cast away the cloud
From that luminous moon
Be silent, in silence
Does death descend and we
Embrace life, in silence.

This poem from Rumi has been translated by
several others. Persian text is online here.

Hafiz

Come let us spread the roses bed
and in the wine cup cast love's wine
and the heavens let us tear asunder
and roll out anew in its stead
if sorrow does legions send
bent on lover's blood be shed
you and I who hold the cup
will conspire and roll it up

Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn)

When first I gazed upon your face
our eyes did lock your face to mine
Your sorrow hence I shall recount
each thought each strand of hair entwined
to see your face I then set out
as zephyr wind to cross to find
From house to house and door to door
each way each street, each path each place