<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459873" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Those birds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those birds outside your window at dawn<br>singing all at once fit to bust –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">did you know they migrate from Islam<br>in the fighting season? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They’re all Sufis: they sleep all night<br>with the Beloved; and in the morning</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they exchange the jokes they heard, <br>the pillow talk from the night before sleep; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">then the blackbird and the thrush<br>weave these into stories which they sing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all day; then at night the nightingale<br>makes them all into one beautiful poem</div><div style="margin:10px 0">about being intoxicated into song<br>by the wine of Shiraz; the rose-water wafers; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and how those who say<br>that one cannot be intoxicated</div><div style="margin:10px 0">by the longing for the One<br>have proved themselves wrong</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and proved the nightingale right<br>as you can know in yourself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when the nightingale sings of this<br>to the heart’s light pulsing in the stars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459873" data-title="Those birds de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Those birds outside your window at dawn singing all at once fit to bust – did you know they migrate from Islam in the fighting season? They’re all Sufis: they sleep all night with the Beloved; and in the morning they exchange the jokes the..."></div> </div> </div>

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