RONNIE MALLEY

 
 

Where Everything Is Music
Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn't matter.

We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.

The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world's harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.

So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.

This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.

Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!

They derive
from a slow and powerful root
that we can't see.

Stop the words now.
Open the window in the center of your chest,
and let the spirits fly in and out.

-- Jalaluddin Rumi
WELCOME        नमस्ते        اهلا و سهلا         Bienvenüe         سلام عليكم         Hoş geldiniz

Bienvenidos         خوش آمديد        Καλώς Ορίσατε                欢迎                 שלום           ሰላምታ

Dal Lake Srinagar, Kashmir June 2011

              Photo by Ronnie Malley