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    By Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi : Cooked Heads

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    This poem uses vivid imagery to describe transcending the physical world and seeing with a spiritual perspective. The speaker has been given the ability to see inside themselves to the "fountain of the sun" and perceive both the inner and outer realms. Their soul has become excited by this sweetness and opened itself like a door to the light of the sun. The market where cooked heads are sold is a metaphor for seeing beyond superficial outer appearances into the deeper reality within.

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    This poem uses vivid imagery to describe transcending the physical world and seeing with a spiritual perspective. The speaker has been given the ability to see inside themselves to the "fountain of the sun" and perceive both the inner and outer realms. Their soul has become excited by this sweetness and opened itself like a door to the light of the sun. The market where cooked heads are sold is a metaphor for seeing beyond superficial outer appearances into the deeper reality within.

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    This poem uses vivid imagery to describe transcending the physical world and seeing with a spiritual perspective. The speaker has been given the ability to see inside themselves to the "fountain of the sun" and perceive both the inner and outer realms. Their soul has become excited by this sweetness and opened itself like a door to the light of the sun. The market where cooked heads are sold is a metaphor for seeing beyond superficial outer appearances into the deeper reality within.

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    This poem uses vivid imagery to describe transcending the physical world and seeing with a spiritual perspective. The speaker has been given the ability to see inside themselves to the "fountain of the sun" and perceive both the inner and outer realms. Their soul has become excited by this sweetness and opened itself like a door to the light of the sun. The market where cooked heads are sold is a metaphor for seeing beyond superficial outer appearances into the deeper reality within.

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    Cooked Heads

    by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

    I have been given a glass


    that has the fountain of the sun inside,
    a friend to both worlds,
    like the fragrance of amber inside the fragrance of musk.
    My soul-parrot gets excited with sweetness.
    Wingbeats, a door opening in the sun.
    You have seen the market where they sell cooked heads.
    hat is what this is,
    a way of seeing beyond inner and outer.
    ! donkey wanders the sign of aurus.
    "eroes do not stay lined up in ranks for very long.
    I set out for abri#,
    even though my boat is anchored here.
    From Rumi: The Big Red Book he $reat Masterpiece %elebrating Mystical &ove '
    (riendship, pg. )*)
    The collected translations by Coleman Barks

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