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Best Masnavi Poems

Below are the all-time best Masnavi poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of masnavi poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Voice
The Voice…

On a dark night that was darker than my pain,
     nothing was there for me except to complain.
I hid myself...

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Categories: imagination, journey, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Masnavi



Playground
Playground…

Playground…
I am making decisions every morning,
None of them comes along with any warning.
To go right or to go left, which one is right?
Living in darkness...

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Categories: age, allusion, anger,
Form: Masnavi
Motherland
Motherland…

I am a desert, barren and hot.
Hoping for the rain, which I forgot.
Once, I was green, golden, and bright.
Nightingales singing night after night.
My fresh breeze...

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Categories: emotions, feelings, longing, peace,
Form: Masnavi
The Life Is
The Life Is …

The Life Is …
When I was young, there was no pain,
The only pain was to complain.
When I was young, I did not...

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Categories: allusion, angst, life, old,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Essence of my Poetry
How do I praise your influence, oh Rumi?
For you are the essence of my poetry. 
Poet's quote.

I was lost in mournful melodies of birds,
until death...

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Categories: appreciation, life, philosophy,
Form: Masnavi



Quote Me Rumi
QUOTE ME RUMI

Plant me in the garden next door.
I want to be a man no more. 
I don’t want to have pain in me.
 ...

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Categories: anger, conflict, imagination, pain,
Form: Masnavi
Regret
Regret….

I flew once in a field full of flowers,
a field that was kissed by April showers.
I tasted all the jasmines, as they were new,
I did...

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Categories: allusion, fantasy, imagination, love,
Form: Masnavi
Crystal Bowl
Crystal Bowl

A gold fish swimming round and round.
	His world of glass is all surround.
Round and round, day and night
      ...

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Categories: inspiration, journey, life, love,
Form: Masnavi
Samara
Samara...

Brilliant sunshine, silvery cloud;
looked down and found me lost in a crowd.
Some nights, I flew and followed the breeze.
Some nights, my world turned into a...

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Categories: allusion, life, metaphor, seasons,
Form: Masnavi
The Watch Maker
The Watch Maker…


Let me be, leave me alone, I'm Him, I'm alone.
I'm in pain; let me be, let me be, on my own.
 All the...

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Categories: creation, fantasy, love,
Form: Masnavi
Oneness
Oneness… 


I was thinking of my good old grandpa, 
I loved him so much and called him Bababa.
He was my favorite person in my life,
He...

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Categories: allusion, muse, spiritual,
Form: Masnavi
Double J - Just Jetsam
Marred and minced remnants pile high in a storm’s swarm
Yesterdays, hardened-soft, surface where sea’s warm…

Flotsam found, lays tales around, in frayed traces
Another shattered shell whimpers...

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Categories: allusion,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Cenobite Muse
My muse keeps pestering like a cenobite, 
chewing my brain like a hungry parasite. 
Pressuring the ink to bleed like acid rain,
catharsis to release perpetual...

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Categories: muse,
Form: Masnavi
Cat and Mouse
Cat and mouse

Within a garden somewhere out there,
butterflies were dancing free from care.
Thousands of flowers loving the dance,
love the lovers and loving romance.
A lot of...

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Categories: death, life, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Masnavi
The Bubble
The bubble 

The bubble 

I’m a bubble, a bubble of air;
	Deep in the ocean, fully aware.
Darkness my cover, cold and sad;
	Covering my soul, making me...

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Categories: adventure, loneliness, love, self,
Form: Masnavi

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