A femur full of campaign

  

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī 

 (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمّد رومی)

Rumi 

 (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273),  

"was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian (mutakallim), and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran"  

"the leaders of France, Germany and Britain endorsed calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, the return of scores of hostages held by Hamas and the “unfettered” delivery of humanitarian aid."

"Rumi's works were written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic and Greek in his verse. His Masnavi (Mathnawi), composed in Konya, is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language. 

Rumi's influence has transcended national borders and ethnic divisions: "

" Iranians, Afghans, Tajiks, Turks, Kurds, Greeks, Central Asian Muslims, as well as Muslims of the Indian subcontinent have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. "

" His poetry influenced not only Persian literature, but also the literary traditions of the Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai, Pashto, Kurdish, Urdu, and Bengali languages. "

'Rumi's works are widely read today in their original language across Greater Iran and the Persian-speaking world. 

Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" is very popular in Turkey, Azerbaijan and South Asia, and has become the "best selling poet" in the United States." 

  

hellfire headlines bake monday 

licking its wall street chops 

theres no eye for an eye reciprocity 

there's no iron shawl 

beat the oil drum with a femur  

full, it hardly sounds 

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sandbags of wheat await water 

to wash away hunger meanwhile they're forts 

pow pow goes his spoon pow 

up to the eye as if sighting 

we backfire batter and dough 

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divorced from the world yet yoked 

pulling tin cup toward dime 

a pomegranate fills never 

red rind unity unrefined 

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'According to the authoritative Rumi biographer Franklin Lewis of the University of Chicago, 

 "the Anatolian peninsula which had belonged to the Byzantine, or eastern Roman empire, 

 had only relatively recently been conquered by Muslims and even when it came to be controlled by Turkish Muslim rulers, it was still known to Arabs, Persians and Turks as the geographical area of Rum.  

As such, there are a number of historical personages born in or associated with Anatolia known as Rumi, a word borrowed from Persian literally meaning 'Roman,' " 

"Rumi's public life then began: he became an Islamic Jurist, issuing fatwas and giving sermons in the mosques of Konya." 

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800 years ago.   

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"John faced a rebellion by many of his barons, who were unhappy with his fiscal policies and his treatment of many of England's most powerful nobles. Magna Carta was drafted as a peace treaty between John and the barons, and agreed in 1215.  

However, neither side complied with its conditions and civil war broke out shortly afterwards, with the barons aided by Prince Louis of France. 

 It soon descended into a stalemate. John died of dysentery contracted while on campaign in eastern England during late 1216"

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"Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry and dance as a path for reaching God.  

For Rumi, music helped devotees to focus their whole being on the divine 

 and to do this so intensely that the soul was both destroyed and resurrected" 

"agnate:

late 15th century (as a noun): from Latin agnatus, from ad- ‘to’ + gnatus, natus ‘born’ "