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If you want to take an eccentric perspective on the idea of a lover and love from the perspective of an ascetic and mystic this collection will take be quite an experience for you.
There will be brief moment where you will gasp abt Rumi’s bebaqi (guts) to use the most sultry of metaphors and also laugh at his wit and sense of humour abt the foolishness inside and outside of the longing for love

Covers the ascetic aspect of rumi
Since this is obviously a translation and extremely metaphysical in its rhyme it requires some imagination but it deals with the idea of romantic love in a very different way

Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.

A white flower grows in the quietness.
Let your tongue become that flower.

Let yourself be silently drawn
by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Your loving doesn't know its majesty,
until it knows its helplessness.