Poems on Jelaluddin Rumi by Top Critiquers

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. ~ Rumi

Exuberance reveals many colors;
it's an outward sharing of fertility

Spring shares a newness of youth
a fertile aliveness of birth;
Autumn returns that fertility
  of seasoned experience
  and warm intimacy to the earth;

its urgent poignancy resides
  in the recognition of a limited future
  Spring knows nothing about

Everybody loves Spring
   until Autumn presents itself
allowing the natural coming and going
  of that whose time has...