POEM OF THE MONTH


The New Rule

It's the old rule that drunks have to argue and get into fights.
The lover is just as bad: He falls into a hole.
But down in that hole he finds something shining,
worth more than any amount of money or power.

Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street.
I took it as a sign to start singing,
falling up into the bowl of sky.
The bowl breaks. Everywhere is falling everywhere.
Nothing else will do.

Here's the new rule:
Break the wineglass,
and fall toward the glassblower's breath.

--Rumi

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