Rain fell on one man,
he ran into his house.
he ran into his house.
But the swan spread its wings and said,
“Pour more on me of that power
I was fashioned from.”
Hello Friends,
Today’s ruba’i or Persian quatrain was translated by Coleman Barks for a collection of Rūmī’s most spring-ful works entitled Birdsong (MAYPOP Athens Georgia 1993).
I hear Doria Roberts “Caught in the Rain” when I read this poem; hear Leda; hear a middle school science teacher explaining what percentages of our bodies are made of water, what percentages of the earth waters cover…
— Ellen