What, national poetry month? Like, American national poetry month? That would explain why I haven’t heard about it until now. Although, I did notice AB had gone on a Bukowski kick earlier this week… then a couple by Rilke… now they’re talking Rumi over there, and Spacecheese mentioned poetry…

Now I get it.

I used to use a Rumi quote as a tagline, “Sell your certainty and buy bewilderment”. He is a comforting and inspiring Sufi poet.

Here’s a different Rumi poem, “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you”:

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.

translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks