Showing posts with label Who Makes These Changes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Who Makes These Changes. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2012

"Who Makes These Changes?" by Rumi


Maybe it hasn't taken you as many whuppins as it took Rumi to arrive at a godly suspicion of your hankerings, itches and desires.

Who makes these changes?
I shoot an arrow right.
It lands left.
I ride after a deer and find myself
Chased by a hog.
I plot to get what I want
And end up in prison.
I dig pits to trap others
And fall in.

I should be suspicious
Of what I want.

This poem is available in a number of books, including The Essential Rumi

What's Going On Here?

Pretty much what the tagline says. I'm reciting poems I like, and making mashups of poems I like with the music for which my ear hungers when I read and think of these poems. It is my sincere hope that other lovers of these poems will do likewise.