I had planned to leave a comment on the last post explaining the Coleman Barks link but found that, somehow, I was not able to comment - maybe that post was too long? another downside of the computer world
I first heard him read at the Museum of Northwest Art's annual Poetry Festival in LaConner, Washington, several years ago. I then had the opportunity to hear him again in San Francisco. This man can read a poem in a way that takes your breath away. He writes his own poetry but he is mostly known for reading and translating the poems of Rumi.
In the video in the post 'Sacred Mountains' below, Coleman is the narrator through most of it. For me, it adds to the spiritual quality of the piece. I hope you enjoyed it.
I first heard him read at the Museum of Northwest Art's annual Poetry Festival in LaConner, Washington, several years ago. I then had the opportunity to hear him again in San Francisco. This man can read a poem in a way that takes your breath away. He writes his own poetry but he is mostly known for reading and translating the poems of Rumi.
In the video in the post 'Sacred Mountains' below, Coleman is the narrator through most of it. For me, it adds to the spiritual quality of the piece. I hope you enjoyed it.
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'Water From Your Spring'
What was that candle's light
that opened and consumed me so quickly?
Come back, my friend! The form of our love
is not a created form.
Nothing can help me but that beauty.
There was a dawn I remember
when my soul heard something
from your soul. I drank water
from your spring and felt
the current take me.
Rumi
