Mar 10 2010
Zeynep Hatun – I am a fountain, You are my water
I am a fountain, You are my water
by Zeynep Hatun
English version by Murat Yagan
I am a fountain, You are my water.
I flow from You to You.
I am an eye, You are my light,
I look from You to You.
You are neither my right nor my left.
You are my foot and my arm as well.
I am a traveler, You are my road.
I go from You to You.
— from Women in Sufism: A Hidden Treasure – Writings and Stories of Mystics Poets, Scholars & Saints, Edited by Camille Adams Helminski
/ Photo by daveeedo6 /
Don’t these lines just bring a smile to your face?
I flow from You to You.
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Today we reached another milestone with the Poetry Chaikhana: As of this morning, there are now more than 6,000 people on the Poetry Chaikhana email list. Amazing!
People are reading this email on every continent (except for Antarctica… as far as I know 
and nearly every country, state, province, and principality. Think how wide-reaching the Poetry Chaikhana community has become.
I encourage you to take a moment and read a note I posted about a year ago on the Poetry Chaikhana Around the World. It can give a deeper sense of whom you are sharing these poems with.
Many blessings!
I am a traveler, You are my road.
I go from You to You.
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Zeynep Hatun
Turkey (15th Century) Timeline |
Zeynep Hatun was the first significant woman poet of Ottoman Divan Poetry. As with so many love poets in the tradition, her words dance on the borderline between worldly and divine love.
In Camille Helminski’s book, Women of Sufism, we are told that:
“…Zeynep Hatun [was] one of the strong women of Sufism around whom people have gathered for light and guidance in the Ankara region of Turkey for many years…”
Ivan…I especially appreciate today’s offering…and you for offering. Have been promising myself some time this week to work with my own poetry…did you not say at one time that I could even post some of it on your website? … there is a need to express…of course. it is that all our stories…each and every…are important.
again…thanks for doing this!
–bss
Oh, yes,Ivan, it surely does bring a smile because what
we’re doing is completely surrendering and knowing that we
are ONE WITH GOD, AT PEACE WITH ALL CREATION. I’M A
TRAVELER AND THE ROAD I WALK ON IS GOD, THAT’S
A LOVELY GUARANTEE THAT IT’S A SUBLIME WALK WE
ARE WALKING, PARTICULARLY WHEN WE ACKNOWLEDGE
IT IS BY HIS GRACE THAT WE LIVE AND MOVE, WALK.
I sing the body electric,
the body magnetic,
the body in chemical ecstasy
the body working mundanely
the body mind personality
I sing
becoming vibration
moving through time and space
moving mental cognitions
of paradigms and conditions
movement of formless masses
chanting together
moving together
becoming a people
becoming a common complaint,
a common solution
a body of common sensation
able at last to relate
difference to difference
thesis to synthesis
because we are not the same
bodies sharing a common name
yet each our own rhyme and reason
not about hatred or blame
curing a common disease when
body to body
mind to mind
we become each in our own way
divine
..from You to You….. from You to You……..from YOU TO YOU…………………Oh Ivan!!! I can stutter till infinity and never be able to explain how much your work has sustained me over the last four years!! The beginning of my journey, the journey itself,……and who knows, i might dissolve in the fragrance one day…..every step- a beginning…..from Thee to Thee!!! <3 you for being!!! Love and light!!
… and here i fell in love all over again…..(with Rumi, Hafiz, Mary Oliver, Gabriel Rosenstock, Ivan Granger, Jim Atwell….. so many more!!) … AH!! Love in zip code reality!!
It gives great thinkings for the lovers
My tongue is to weak to thank all the brothers and sisters in this site who are providing such lovely poems which join heart directly. love you all…….
M. sardari
SHIRAZ-IRAN