Inside the needle’s eye – v2 #Rumi #ThisMoment #poetry

Starlight shining upon us,

Bent to the needle’s edges,
Piercing our consciousness,
Our living state of being,
Offering us a taste, hint,
Of eternity, of our future,
God’s love, our love,
To ponder greater things…
 
Inside the needle’s eye,
An amulet, a treasure,
Light, love, temporal things,
Calling to our spirits,
To our vital essence,
Our living in this moment,
God’s love, our love,
To ponder greater things…
 
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Edited February 7, 2024
Inside the needle’s eye – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/inside-needles-eye-v2.html
February 7, 2024
Inside the needle’s eye
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/inside-needles-eye.html
Matthew 19:24
&
A note scratched on a piece of paper…
This Moment
https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/R/RumiMevlanaJ/Thismoment/index.html
a poem by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi,
translated by Coleman Banks
&
edited November 4, 2018
how would you be different
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-would-you-be-different-v2.html
edited November 4, 2018
how will you know – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-will-you-know-v2.html
edited November 4, 2018
what would you start – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-would-you-start-v2.html
edited November 4, 2018
how would you live – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-would-you-live-v2.html
edited November 4, 2018
what would you do – 3 – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-would-you-do-v5.html
(editing original)
edited November 4, 2018
how would you change – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-would-you-change-v2.html
edited November 4, 2018
what are your dreams – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-are-your-dreams-v2.html
&
edited November 4, 2018
Let yourself submit
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/let-yourself-submit.html
edited November 4, 2018
Let yourself believe – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/let-yourself-believe-v2.html
November 4, 2018
Let yourself believe
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/let-yourself-believe.html
Inspired by Quote by 13^th Century Poet Rumi:
“Let yourself be silently drawn
by the strange pull of what you really love.
It will not lead you astray.”
One of the favorite quotes of Christine Loeber,
whose obituary/remembrance was in the
Fall 2018 UNH Magazine, pp 94-45,
written by Editor-in-Chief Kristin Waterfield Duisberg
&
October 31, 2018
what would you do – 3 – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/10/what-would-you-do-3-v3.html
October 31, 2018
how would you be different
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-would-you-be-different.html
October 31, 2018
what are your dreams
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/10/what-are-your-dreams.html
October 31, 2018
how will you know
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-will-you-know.html
October 31, 2018
what would you start
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/10/what-would-you-start.html
October 31, 2018
how would you live
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-would-you-live.html
October 31, 2018
how would you change
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-would-you-change.html
October 31, 2018
what would you do – 3 – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/10/what-would-you-do-3-v2.html 
October 31, 2018
what would you do – 3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/10/what-would-you-do-3.html
&
edited March 3, 2014
Do We See God – 2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/do-we-see-god-2.html
edited March 3, 2014
Do You See God
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/do-you-see-god.html
edited March 3, 2014
Do I See God - v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/do-i-see-god-v2.html
May 23, 2013
Do I See God
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/05/do-i-see-god.html
quote by Rumi,
“God is in the look of your eyes”
read by Shirley Vezina
inspired by reading at Poets’ Corner
monthly poetry reading,
at the Suncook Senior Center
May 6, 2013
 
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Inside the needle’s eye #Rumi #poetry

Starlight shining upon us,
Bent to the needle’s edges,
Piercing our consciousness,
Our living state of being,
Offering us a taste, hint,
Of eternity, of our future,
To ponder greater things…
 
Inside the needle’s eye,
A camel, a rich man’s treasure,
Light, love, temporal things,
Calling to our spirits,
to our vital essence,
Our living in this moment,
To ponder greater things…
 
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February 7, 2024
Inside the needle’s eye

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/inside-needles-eye.html

Matthew 19:24
&
A not scratched on a piece of paper…
This Moment
https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/R/RumiMevlanaJ/Thismoment/index.html
a poem by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi,
translated by Coleman Banks
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com  Poetry Where You Live.
 
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To recapture the Word

to recapture the Word

to see its beauty

to see with new eyes

the ancient text

opening a window

on the Word of God

to see more clearly

God within.

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June 6, 2015

To recapture the Word

one of the goal of The Message bible

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by Eugene Peterson

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