the sparrow
Stop the words now.
Open the window in the centre of your chest,
and let the spirits fly in and out
-Mevlânâ Celaleddin-i Rumi, 1207-1273.
Selçuk caravanserai (circa 1250), Central Anatolia, July 2004.
posted by kitabet at 11:25 AM
4 Comments:
it's beautiful
Such a handsome pairing of verse and photograph. When I first saw the photo after the verse, I thought, "A hole in my chest!"
Exactly. Such a handsome coupling.
xoxo,
Sameen
dear all, thank you--and welcome, Peter!
I encountered the verse and the image separately (India, Turkey) and it took me another three years more to realise they belonged together. It pleases me to think that the poet may have passed a night or two in that caravanserai, not so far from the city he made his last home.
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