Tag: love poetry
Book Excerpt: ‘Rumi: A New Selection’ by Farrukh Dhondy
Excerpted with permission from Rumi: A New Selection by Farrukh Dhondy, published by Harper Perennial India.
The bridge between their souls…
Moonlit sky, honey-dripping music
Like freshly-inked poems, they begin
To read each other
Word by word, line by line
Discovering imageries, that transport to paradise
Sliding into the depths,...
Is that what Love is?
When the cruel cut of fate a yawning chasm created,
Yet could not equal the loudness of the scream
The pain in my heart rent,
His own...
Beneath the Smells, and Sights…
As she peeled the skin, slowlyThe magical smell from the orangeFilled her heart with memories…How beautiful and convenient it isTo remember a beloved, as...
