Poetry by RUMI -- Who Says Words with My Mouth

[BroadwayJosh]

Wow... speechless.  Further words are useless.

[anenigmainme]

Do you have "Like This" by Rumi, narrated by Coleman Barks

[jdemichele789]

exquisitely beautiful.....thank you

[AbecedariusRex]

Phenomenal and a great video to go with this exquisite poem. what are the last few lines? I don't recall those from the original poem.

[dkadagian]

when I was recording the voice over with Coleman Barks he said that he found out this was in the original poem after his translation and we added it to the short film.

[AbecedariusRex]

@dkadagian It's really gorgeous and adds a nuance I've never heard in this great poem before. Thanks so much.

[shosh90001]

BEUTIFUL Who Says Words as in my soul.

[anthonygiovanetti]

nice.

[bossman344]

Rumi, Coleman Banks, and me - we are marvelous together! And now there's you, too! Are we not magnificent?

[greatbookie]

Where is this -- Brooklyn? -- Why Brooklyn??

[11azazel23]

i may seem drunk! glance with your heart and you will find me completely sober......

[FreespiritPaul]

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it” Rumi. For more quotes and stories please check out my website freespiritualways

[TajikInUk]

"II'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary."

[irajkhodadoost]

Dr. Barks: How did you become so famous? There so many other better translators of Rumi's sublime poetry!

[wk2dp]

@irajkhodadoost Coleman Barks is the best I've ever experienced, so I keep coming back...

If you, irajkhodadoost, enjoy others, please, by all means go, listen to them;  rather than criticize

the one I come here to praise, enjoy and ascend in the richness of his depth of perception...

[zzinglish53]

If all were forced (heaven forbid) to read or watch Rumi's work this would be a better world; the hard cases could sue for the violations of their right to stay blind, and the rest could sympathetically respect their free will, while hiding their joy in respect for the dead.

Namaste'

[zzinglish53]

Watching this begs the question whether anyone comprising this bustling busyness soon to end with earth's crushing the little order seen was ever able to distance their true inner self from it's inherited preoccupation with out there to ask these kinds of questions about the in here. Rumi's life was expression of the spiritual evolution of a human being: man not conscious of God is akin to an animal & true consciousness lets him touch the divine. True prophets are the tip of the human arrow.

[1971SuperLead]

@zzinglish53 "True prophets are the tip of the human arrow."....ah....who said that? I like that.

I broke a guitar sting tonight and what was wierd is that I knew it was about to break a split second before it let snapped. A split second is not much of a heads up, but it's a start.

Rumi is an amazing mind. We are so fortunate to still have so much of his work. I love this video clip. It's so well done. As if Rumi did it himself.

[evelutionofone]

This San Francisco --this was shot April 14, 1906. 4 days before the earthquake.

[Freedomisgranted]

Its in San Fransisco 1908 very well known production one of the first things filmed it is awesome this video.

[sebcoxtantric]

whats the music?

[1971SuperLead]

@sebcoxtantric Debussy's Clair de Lune

[1971SuperLead]

Wow, Chopin, Jimmy Swaggert and old San Francisco in black and white. Just kidding about Jimmy but the video did make me forget my troubles for the moment it played. I guess that means it was very powerful, but Chopin is always very powerful. Chopin is God. No doubt about that.

[zzinglish53]

@1971SuperLead Of course you and Chopin are God, but don't leave out Debussy, from whom this vibrational Moonlight (Clair de Lune) emanated around 1905 to surely become the most popularly recognized of his works. God's Chopin and God's Debussy or Swaggert are equally unique and identical no doubt, tho the latters more common methods for forgetting his troubles made them go forth and multiply.

Namaste'

[1971SuperLead]

@zzinglish53, Oh, Debussy's Clair de Lune!.....I should have known, as I have a CD with "romantic piano music" from Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt and of course Debussy, and it's my favorite piece from my favorite CD.

But is that really Jimmy Swaggart giving the poem?

I thought RUMI was an ancient enlightened master.

Am I ever really right about anything? ......oh, that was brilliant right there. To be aware of my total lack of knowledge is a most brilliant insight.

[zzinglish53]

@1971SuperLead I guess the voice sounds somewhat like Swaggert, and that's why I ref it 2 mos ago, but about not knowing anything, we go to the library til we find our own source of truth to break out of this "prison for drunks." Coleman Barks reads this; he's made somewhat of a career of reading/translating Rumi's works from his 13th century life as a Persian Sufi/mystic. Rumi left us 70K verses including: "When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."

[SireAtwode]

This peom reminds me of U2's song "Bad":

"If I could, yes I would

If I could, I would

Let it go

Surrender

Dislocate

If I could throw this

Lifeless lifeline to the wind

Leave this heart of clay

See you break, break away."

[f0Rrmen]

i find myself ... more & more these days ... just wishing to go home ... wanting to find my home ... wondering why, ever i ended up here ...

thank you from my deepest 'drunken' place, letting me see ... i am not alone~*

ginger (jinn~jah ;)~*

[RUMIandHAFIZ]

love it.

[evyy25]

love, beautiful.

[DauntlessDiva]

God, how I love Rumi. :)

[ksaeid]

Thanks for the clip. Great sound. Ain't good at poetry nor in English. Being a Persian and understanding some English and interested in Iranian culture and literature, can say it is the best translation I have ever heard of him. But I cannot say, one can deeply understand RUMI (Molana Jalaledin) listening to its best translation. Most of the words in his poems has a story behind. Man should first learn Persian literature, the history of Islam, and religions then fully understand what he says.

[GKSireland]

@ksaeid

The reason that Rumi is known throughout the world, is because he speaks to the Universal in Mankind - what we all share. Some small tastes may be missing, but the flavour is no less beautiful.

Love,

Graham

[dassinne]

What a nice and great voice , that man can rise more than one people with his words Rumi is the god of we call mystic world bless to all

[sinajon1]

Thank you , so much for shearing Rumi's words of wisdom with us...

Namaste

[MuadDibCinema]

Very interesting take on this poem.

[CUCHIFREN]

this video is a perfect juxtaposition to such a deep poem

[markzmen09]

the poetry of Rumi along with the Dance is amazing. The Whirling Dervishes give Rumi an amazingly new inner experience.

[Ziggurathss]

very nostalgic ... and nostalgy is 5 +++++

[mysticheartpoet]

So beautiful, thankyou, the tenderness and heart superfluous, words of power and truth., that's what makes them full of power. I don't know who spoke these words, but you soul voice comes through, awesome, thankyou again.

[zzinglish53]

Let me add my thanks to the others for putting this up; those who love Rumi can never get enough of his art and wisdom.

Any more in the oven?

Namaste'

[Reza254]

"This drunkenness began..in some other tavern

When I get back around to that place...I'll be completely sober."

[cheapseatspoet]

Nice work. I do appreciate the voiced readings much more than poetry postings with text only. Using Coleman Bark's own voice is nice. I've posted a Rumi poem too, (my stuff uses my own marginal voice tho!)

[braze4857]

Absolutely stunning! The juxtaposition you chose is inspired.

[druidia9]

OK, after looking on the web maybe it is San Fran, not Barcelona 1908. My bad.

[dkadagian]

I think Rumi works whether it's Barcelona or SanFran let alone Islam. Cross racial/gender/culture/religion - Rumi was really wired in. Just glad you liked the work.

[40AcreMule]

Definitely not Barcelona. Those are all American, not European automobiles. The European auto industry was off and running strong by 1900 and few American cars were being exported to Europe at that time.

[zurapDOR]

@druidia9 I think San Fran. seems impossible. It was totally extinct by 1908, if that's the year. Earthquake estroyed the whole city in April 1906. These buildings seems to have been there for years..

[evelutionofone]

@zurapDOR

this video was just before (days) the earthquake in april 18 10906

[druidia9]

I believe this was some rare footage from a street car in Barcelona in the early 20th century. All was new and exciting. A rare glimpse into that time. And to find it matched with Rumi and Coleman Barks...pure majesty! I am indebted to you, dkadagian!

[11199545]

hey really thanksssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssss.....im from IRAN

but im studnt in hungary

[tubette1]

Rumi + Debussy = heaven

thanks!

[AlYaqouta]

Beautiful poetry! It's in SF, Embarcadero street if i am not mistaken. I like the way the camera was following the path towards the building, just like the soul following the path towards its destiny.

[mySTEREOFiDELiC]

beautiful.

[letaek]

this is beautiful! barks reading is soulful

[OzKardozi]

"This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

I don't plan it.

When I'm outside the saying of it,

I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."

[anandhohum]

Thank you very much for the true essence

[Coenbros]

Question - at the end, there are a couple of lines that I can not find anywhere. Does anyone who that last part? Thanks!

[lunacave]

I actually cried after watching this. This is truly amazing. Barks out did himself with this reading. Never been so moved by a poem before. The video as a whole is art at it's finest. Thank you Rumi, and thank you Coleman.

[alchemistra]

This is positively wonderful, this footage is so interesting. And well of course, Rumi makes me ecstatic = )

[IandYou0]

this is very creative

[daaevk]

Is the reader Coleman Barks? If so, and I believe it is, his translatoins of Rumi are not intended to be literal at all, but Barks believes accurate to the original intent, rendered for modern English.

[JazzDanceQueen]

beauty and truth in its essence.

[giash2]

This is truly beautiful!

[123flashdance]

Does any of you know the name of the piece of music and the composer?

[40AcreMule]

It is 'Clair de lune' by Claude Debussy.

[123flashdance]

Thank you very much!

[persianmpire]

For better underestanding and feel RUMI poems should know his mother toung,FARSI.and refer to his homeland,IRAN.

[khiljiauto]

Read about rumi best friend SHAMS TABRIZ. Rumi life changed after he met SHAMS. Shams was rumi mentor. Shams tabirz shrine in Multan city of Pakistan.

[Saladdin65]

yep

[zolgharn]

"Glorious"!!

[zolgharn]

"Like A yearning of eternity , return , disbandment & cancellation"!

[KZNRECORDS]

Sublime

[vgovahi]

unfortunatly Rumi's poet is not easy to translate all his original poets are in Farsi/Persian (Iranian language ) and what I heard hear is not very close to the original poet ,I belive its almost imposible to translate rumies poet in any language , its so prefound and deep , its even not easy to intrerpret in FARSI

[nellie7ap]

where is the trafit scene at, the building at the back looks like Big Ben, but it is quite young...

[dkadagian]

That's Market Street in San Francisco just before the great fire at the turn of the century destroyed most of the area.

[kiribella]

Thanks - I'd been trying to find out more about the film footage - no credit is given.

[broadporch]

It's the San Francisco Ferry Building at the end of Market St. but I don't know who made it.

[acerb45666555]

5*****

[raincrowfilm]

That works very well. Everything comes together nicely: music, poetry, traffic all arriving at the same destination. Terrific work!

[HealthyHerbalist]

Nice  ... :)

[Zenya3]

as always you create wonderful meaningful videos to inspire and educate. Thank you !