Persia, (1207-1273)
Who makes these changes?
- Who makes these changes?
- I shoot an arrow right.
- It lands left.
- I ride after a deer and find myself
- Chased by a hog.
- I plot to get what I want
- And end up in prison.
- I dig pits to trap others
- And fall in.
- I should be suspicious
- Of what I want.
The Essential Rumi,. trans. by Coleman Barks and John Moyne. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.
About the Poet
Rumi, (Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi or Jalal ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi) (1207-1273), was a 13th-century poet, jurist, theologian, and sufi mystic, translated here by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), a US poet and teacher of contemporary American poetry. [DES-6/03]