POST 27: Work i am willing to Re-read!

We have read so many stories this semester. I enjoyed some, some not so much. Some were really long and others nice and short. But if i had to choose one story i wouldn't mind repeating, that would be Rumi's love Poems. For both Research documents we did for this class, i choose to use The Wife of Bath's Tale because  i found the main character to be very interesting and almost refreshing to read about. But i would not want to reread this story. Call it cheesy! but the poems have been my favorites to read this semester, most especially Rumi's. Well apart from the obvious fact that he wrote love poems. Rumi writes in such a provocative and Mysterious way that gives the reader a chance to interpret and define so many of his poems in their own way. His poems give us a a description of what it is like to feel so Alive and in love. And the same time telling the reader to go out and have those experiences for yourself. Take for Instance, The Silence of Love, in which it says:

"Love is the astrolabe of God’s mysteries.
A lover may hanker after this love or that love,
But at the last he is drawn to the king of Love.
However much we describe and explain Love,
When we fall in love we are ashamed of our words.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear,
But Love unexplained is better."(285)

There is so much beauty in each and every one of his poems. I would read this poem again because this poem can be used as a guide in helping us understand who, what, and why we are searching for a certain kind of love, life or happiness in general. For me, i personally believe that Rumi's poems are simply are 'unexplained' because for each person who reads it , it speaks to our deepest desires and longings and no one of us is the same.