The Sun, the Moon, and on there being no abstracts in life. Pencil, ink, watercolor on 4"X5" canvas. 2009
Looking For Your Face
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it.
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for.
Today I have found you
and those that laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did.
I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty
and wish to see you with a hundred eyes.
My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever
for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold.
I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine.
Your fragrant breath
like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow.
My soul is screaming in ecstasy
Every fiber of my being
is in love with you
Your effulgence
has lit a fire in my heart
and you have made radiant
for me
the earth and sky.
My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer.
–Rumi
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Hi! I don’t recall how I found your blog, but I, too, am an artist (painter, photographer, writer, musician)…and I just fell in LOVE with this paiting. I am a great lover of the Moon (Purnima), and I studied this painting for some time. It wasn’t until I spent a long time looking at the painting and studying its details and colors and composition that I scrolled down a bit and realized that you had copied and pasted a Rumi poem from my blog! Cheers! How beautiful is that?? To find another lover of Rumi who understands his mystic words is beautiful. Your painting does his poetry justice. Well done!
Friend,
Bhakti
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Maybe it was a trackback? Welcome , welcome, welcome. Thank you so much for visiting, I see we have lots in common in terms of the arts and poetry. Keep up the great work!
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