Of Rumi Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Of Rumi

Of, from, by Rumi
-have read much.
-He, to me
-is mentor and Ostad.

Went to Balkh
-no trace
-no one knows of his birth
-he is a treasure
-to own him, all at fight.

But in fact, he too is
-one more of
-The Dari or Farsi
-speakers, trainers.

Foundation is culture
-obtained of Sanskrit
-to mix with and boil in
-Western part of Iran
-Assyrians', Bacteria
-Babylon… Georgia…

We need to open eyes
-to see bowl of head how
-saw Ali, very nice, perfectly:
- "Overlap all the jars;
-except jar of the mind,
-which expands by filling…"

Rumi's books and contents
-Kalileh and Demneh
-and many other books
-in carving and writing
-on tablets and stones
-even chests, verbally
-are from, by people
-to public and rulers
-direct and straight.
-If needed, in secret
-metaphors of fear…

Rumi is, repeat of stories
-with add-ups to match up
-with his taste and his time.

In same way travelled Penchatentra
-origin Sanskrit went into Pahlavi
-then into Arabic, and later to Farsi…

Times' cultures were added to the taste
-during, with every translate.

I live in Toronto
-cosmopolitan,
-plenty of tongues and
-numerous cultures and
-varied looks or the shapes.

Everyday I ask me:
- "Why Rumi? "
-reply is, simply:
- "Area where he lived
-after the migration, and settled
-was known as ‘Rum' or ‘Rome'.
-In Farsi, the "i" is relation…
- ‘Rumi', then, is ‘of Rome'…
- (lives in Rome!)

And that Rome
-the today's Istanbul
-was same as Toronto
-of multi, with multi, plenty…

One of what encountered
-and daily I do face
-in hiding and open
-to match with the Rumi's…
-is great story, example.
-Three men are friends and work in same place
-they decide to have lunch together
-mean to eat cheese, bread and grape but have fight
-just because varied tongues. Grape is Angoor in Persian.
-The Turk says: "Is "Uzum" and Arab calls: "Enab."