A poem for Coleman Barks, Daniel Ladinsky and Robert Bly
Rumi, Haziz and Kabir
paused from drinking wine together
and saying how lucky they were
to meet each other at last
and said to me in a dream,
‘Those clever people who say
that our poems in translation
are nothing like the original
should shut their mouths and write
the same poem in the two languages
which they think they know so well…
we’ll wait here for them…
here where poetry and wine
and fragrant roses and love
are One.’
poem by Michael Shepherd
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