Long Masnavi Poems
Long Masnavi Poems. Below are the most popular long Masnavi by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Masnavi poems by poem length and keyword.
SamaraSamara...
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...
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Categories:
allusion, life, metaphor, seasons,
Form:
Masnavi
The King of MercyTen Lepers sought the Lord
carrying their badges with a Plea
unclean unclean was the cry
Mercy alone was their Plea
The King of mercy heard their cries
by his word He healed them all
One...
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Categories:
blessing, character, eulogy, gospel, health, jesus, relationship,
Form:
Masnavi
Crystal BowlCrystal Bowl
A gold fish swimming round and round.
His world of glass is all surround.
Round and round, day and night
every round, reunite.
Day after day, night after night,
Everywhere he...
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Categories:
inspiration, journey, life, love,
Form:
Masnavi
OnenessOneness…
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 was always in peace even in his strife.
He was kind...
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Categories:
allusion, muse, spiritual,
Form:
Masnavi
The VoiceThe Voice…
On a dark night that was darker than my pain,
nothing was there for me except to complain.
I hid myself, within emptiness of bed,
nothing was...
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Categories:
imagination, journey, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Masnavi
The life isThe Life Is …
When I was young there was no pain,
The only pain was to complain.
When I was young I did not care,
Just as long as my love was there.
When I was young the life...
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Categories:
allusion, angst, life, old, poetry,
Form:
Masnavi
MotherlandMotherland…
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 at dawn was ever...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, longing, peace, tribute,
Form:
Masnavi
Cat and MouseCat 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 butterflies full of lust,
drinking and dancing in love they trust.
Daffodil...
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Categories:
death, life, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Masnavi
The QuestionThe Question …
I had some questions, I asked a friend,
What is my purpose? Where is the end?
What happen to us, when we will die?
Do we turn to ghost ready to fly?
He smiled at me,...
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Categories:
fantasy, satire, science, spiritual,
Form:
Masnavi
PlaygroundPlayground…
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 or hoping to see light.
I made million decisions most of...
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Categories:
age, allusion, anger,
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,...
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Categories:
creation, fantasy, love,
Form:
Masnavi
The King of MercyHe had the best of friends,
they love him so much to take a risk
But they could not heal his palsy,
So paralyzed that he could not use his feet ,
A crowd thronged around the...
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Categories:
analogy, bible, character, creation, jesus, power, sympathy,
Form:
Masnavi
The BubbleThe bubble
I’m a bubble, bubble of air;
Deep in the ocean, fully aware.
Darkness my cover, cold and sad;
Covering my soul, making me mad.
Who deserves this much loneliness?
In the dark ocean of the emptiness.
Months have passed,...
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Categories:
adventure, loneliness, love, self, symbolism, together, trust,
Form:
Masnavi
Death Is Wedding Night(Dedicated this writing to the merciful birthday of the greatest love of the earth Mevlânâ Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi. 30th September is the auspicious birthday of this ever greatest spiritual icon.)
My Death is My...
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Categories:
masnavi, birthday, blessing,
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Free verse
Categories:
allusion, fantasy, imagination, love, metaphor, spiritual,
Form:
Masnavi
Ole TownAs the first rays of the sun pierce through the clouds,
daylight accends upon the land laid in shrouds.
Warmth now greets all the corners of the small town,
earlier the mists had their task to wash down.
Fresh...
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Categories:
masnavi, life, people, places,
Form:
Couplet
My Shadow
My Shadow….
Lost in the path of this dreadful life,
thinking of years that I spent in strife;
walking and...
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Categories:
age, allusion, imagination, life, spiritual,
Form:
Masnavi
Hero's Game Hero’s game ….
I want to know, how should I play?
What are the rules, day after day?
I want to know, where has it gone?
What was it there, that’s gone like dawn?
I want to know, how...
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Categories:
confusion, metaphor, spiritual,
Form:
Masnavi
Less SmilesIf there were no poetry...there would be people we would not know
People like William Shakespeare and Edger Allen Poe
If there were no poetry...What would Emily Dickinson be
Would she live in isolation or...
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Categories:
masnavi, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Rumi, My RoomieI stared at the wall, it stared back at me.
I was so lonesome longed for a roomie.
And as I despaired, with feelings of dread,
I heard a low moan at foot of my bed.
Wonder of wonders,...
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Categories:
books, dream, fantasy, humor, humorous, philosophy, spiritual,
Form:
Masnavi
Who is knocking at my door
Who is knocking at my door?
How much longer to ignore?
How much longer to pretend?
No more power to defend.
I am hiding in my room.
...
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Categories:
confusion, courage, fear, hope, love, son, symbolism,
Form:
Masnavi
Who am IWho am I?
I was a working man, who worked day and night,
living in darkness, and hoping to see light.
I live with some pain since my youth is gone.
How can I be sure, to...
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Categories:
confusion, deep, dream, fantasy, imagination, mystery,
Form:
Masnavi
Perplexity
Perplexity …
To be or to become, death is the question,
not knowing the end, show me the direction.
What is a chain, if it is broken?
Today my...
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Categories:
appreciation, beauty, crazy, life, love,
Form:
Masnavi
Fall in the Spring
Fall in the Spring..
Alas, my youth and all my spring nights...
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Categories:
anger, beauty, old, pain, spring,
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 of graces
vying with the sea-swept sands: gloss embossed fades…
Ocean’s dead!...
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Categories:
allusion,
Form:
Masnavi