<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460091" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the spirit of Rumi - 67 - To Rumi</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m not too proud to say<br>please write a new poem through me<br>and I promise not to claim that<br>I wrote it myself…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or if that’s too much to ask, <br>just a line somewhere, that I’ll watch<br>as it writes itself and know<br>that you, not I, write it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or if that’s too much to ask, <br>open an old book at<br>a page that smells just faintly<br>of attar of roses, and know that<br>Rumi read this page too</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or sitting quietly waiting for a poem, <br>or after a poem, and there’ll be<br>a slight breeze for a moment<br>carrying the memory of a rose<br>from an old Persian species<br>mixed with the faintest scent of wild herbs<br>after desert rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or if that’s too much to ask, <br>just the occasional memory<br>that you lived, and wrote, <br>and a poem comes to mind<br>as if you’re reading it first to a friend</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I’ll smile and look at<br>the rose in the blue and white vase over there, <br>neither of us caring about time<br>while your book lies open by the window, <br>the breeze turning the pages gently<br>as if it knew which poem to choose</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=460091" data-title="In the spirit of Rumi - 67 - To Rumi de Michael Shepherd" data-description="I’m not too proud to say please write a new poem through me and I promise not to claim that I wrote it myself… or if that’s too much to ask, just a line somewhere, that I’ll watch as it writes itself and know that you, not I, write it o..."></div> </div> </div>

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