Rumi
Song of the Reed
A doorway into Rumi: separation as music, longing as instruction.
Why return to it: The reed flute image makes absence audible. It says that longing is not merely pain; it can become song.
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Original / noted line
Song of the Reed
Listen to the reed as it tells a tale of separation, singing of the place from which it was cut.
English transliteration
Transliteration
Listen to the reed: it tells the story of separation, and every note remembers the reed-bed.
Poetic English rendering
Rendering
Hear the reed flute. Its music is the ache of being cut away, and its breath keeps searching for the field it came from.