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Spring 2010   Vol. 26 #2
Spring 2010   Vol. 26 #2

Poems/Not Poems

A Bead on Your String

By Andrew Harvey, Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

 
 

 

My only safety; this shaky soaring

That skins all hope, all desire…

All I am is a bead on your string

Keep turning me with one finger.

 

 

Translated by Andrew Harvey. Reprinted by permission.

 

From the Spring 2010 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 26, No. 2)
© 2010 Andrew Harvey

Author

Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, and teacher, and the author of over 30 books, including the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi. Sign up for his online course A Year of Rumi to receive a hand-selected Rumi poem every day for 365 days.

Rumi was a Sufi mystic and poet. Born in the Persian empire in the 13th-century, his work remains influential and much-loved around the world.

Author

Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, and teacher, and the author of over 30 books, including the critically acclaimed Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi. Sign up for his online course A Year of Rumi to receive a hand-selected Rumi poem every day for 365 days.

Rumi was a Sufi mystic and poet. Born in the Persian empire in the 13th-century, his work remains influential and much-loved around the world.

 
 
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