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Introduction Notes:
I am now re-reading the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the celebrated mystic, poet-philospher, mathematician and astronomer of ancient Persia (**Notes).
Omar Khayyam’s Persian poetry — was introduced to the west through the English translations of Edward Fitzgerald. At first unnoticed, the translations were in vogue — when the leading poets of thar era started to take notice of these Persian quatrains. Known in the Persian as Rubai (or a quatrain, 4-line stanza), and the complete collection termed Rubaiyat. Hence, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam!
Beneath the guise of wine and merry-making of drunken stupor, there is a mystical revelation of our earthly journey in life, and the spiritual aspirations of our mortality to heavenly realms.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is truly about a mystical revelry, and the experience of the divine, or enlightenment of personal consciousness in the human being regardless of sex!
(**Notes: Ghiyath al-Din Abu al-Fat? ?Umar ibn Ibrahim Nisaburi (18 May 1048 – 04 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: ??? ?????), was a polymath, … — Source: Wikipedia)
This poem is my personal response to the mystical perspective of Omar Khayyam, sage and mystic — a true blue Persian original and genius.
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Sage
Journey Journal Page
SAGE
By Leon Enriquez
Secrets of the heart here:
Apt deeper knowing free,
Glimpse fond mystic good cheer,
Exult soul journey spree.
Opt to know that pure bliss:
Make each moment reveal,
Art and science in pure peace,
Rapture awaits true feel.
Keep that mystic gaze bright:
Hope and faith and love meet,
Ask for wisdom and light,
Yield to a touch most sweet;
Yonder beyond mere earth:
Apt music in pure strains,
Meet thus a timeless mirth.
Indulge love’s deep refrain:
Note the passage most meek,
Stillness calls in a glimpse,
Prize bold vision that speaks;
Incline soul dream that streams:
Rise and purge vain desires,
Empty all vain thoughts now.
Mind-body thus attires:
Yield as true love endows,
Sense in seeing bright grace,
Truth in bright cast of light;
Intuit a timeless face:
Crisp word craft in glimpse bright,
Pique that feel thus mellow,
Here and Now embrace whole;
Invoke fire in marrow:
Lavish workings of soul,
Old beyond buzz of time,
Spirit calls us to peace;
Odd and even thus rhyme:
Profound in true soul lease,
Happy joy in calm lot,
Ere cacophony pains,
Rich that heavenly thought.
Affluent moments sans strains:
Niche in a mellow calm,
Dance of spirit attain.
Glimpse as soul utters psalm:
Embrace bliss in refrain,
Now as rapture instructs,
Impress dear soul and heart;
Urge love in pure construct:
Subtle stillness prompts art.
Peace in steadfast deep mirth:
Obtain rich poignant feel,
Exult soul sense of birth,
Thrill deep touch of goodwill.
Taste beyond sensuous touch:
Heed true rapture you face,
Use brief time to bloom much,
See that timeless true grace.
Puzzle fits due season:
Ripples in the swift wind,
Observe beyond mere reason,
Choice in worlds in-between;
Love and light and grace here:
Ample and lavish psalm,
Ink stains as words bridge spheres,
Meet and ground soul trip calm.
Leon Enriquez
14 January 2023
Singapore
Copyright © Leon Enriquez | Year Posted 2023
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