'Cool Rays of the Moon...

What is it about the moon

that beckons me back to you?

My Love--You are a reflection

of my great Self--

The Sun of all suns;

The Light of all light.

Poem © August 2006 Bhakti Brophy

Some Kiss We Want

There is some kiss we want with

our whole lives, the touch of

spirit on the body. Seawater

begs the pearl to break its shell.

And the lily, how passionately

it needs some wild darling! At

night, I open the window and ask

the moon to come and press its

face against mine. Breathe into

me. Close the language-door and

open the love-window. The moon

won't use the door, only the window.

--Rumi

(English translation rendered by Coleman Barks. I suggest this book to everyone who has ever swam in the ecstatic ocean of Rumi's poetry: The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems, © 2002 Harper Collins. Click on the book title to preview and/or purchase the book.)

Which photograph of the moon do you prefer? Why?


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Photographs © October 2006 Bhakti Brophy All rights reserved.