Sunday, June 25, 2006

Who Is This Poet?

A few years ago I read a great little ecstatic poem. The poem is probably a few hundred years old and the poet may have been Indian or Arabic. At the time, I changed a few words of the translation to make it more readable. This is what I remember of the poem:

In the ocean of ecstatic love
there are invisible shores
and no shores at all.
If you're wise
you won't swim in it.

If anyone knows who this poet is, please let me know.