where women steal to rendezvous by night
through darkness that a needle might divide,
show them the road with lightning-flashes bright
as golden streaks upon the touchstone's side--
but rain and thunder not, lest they be terrified.
closer
the surface of this world
is like a painting
a painting
ripe with symbols
symbols
that point like signposts
to the deeper places
the richer places
the places that you
have felt
with your intuition
the places
that have nothing to do
with this place
no words
no ideas
~
my eyes
close
my heart opens
then my self
then i am
no more
the tulip
long ago
very long ago
a persian boy
named ferhad
fell in love
ferhad fell in love
with a girl named shirin
she did not feel
in her heart
what he held in his heart
and so
he went out into the desert
to die
alone
in the fullness of night
he cried tears
on the sand
tears
that became tulips
tulips
like his beloved shirin
the most beautiful
of wildflowers
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