Humble Vocals Spoken Poems

Rumi Poetry • There is a candle • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled. In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be stitched.

Rumi Poems • The Guest House • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • Sufi Poetry This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor.

Rumi Poems • Not Here • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • Sufi Poetry There's courage involved if you want to become truth. There is a broken- open place in a lover.

Rumi Poetry • I Swear • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • Sufi Poetry I swear, since seeing Your face, the whole world is fraud and fantasy The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf or blossom. The distracted birds can't distinguish the birdseed from the snare.

Sylvia Plath Poetry • April 18 • Reading this beautiful poem by Sylvia Plath •

Rumi Poetry • I have been tricked • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • I have been tricked by flying too close to what I thought I loved. Now the candleflame is out, the wine spilled, and the lovers have withdrawn

Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • I • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore • I wonder if I know him In whose speech is my voice, In whose movement is my being, Whose skill is in my lines, Whose melody is in my songs

Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • Friend • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore • Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair.

Rumi Poetry • Did I Not Say To You • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?” Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand years from me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal.

Rumi Poetry • Any Soul That Drank the Nectar • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi •

Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • One Day in Spring • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore • One day in spring, a woman came In my lonely woods, In the lovely form of the Beloved. Came, to give to my songs, melodies, To give to my dreams, sweetness.

Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • Lover's Gifts II: Come to My Garden Walk • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore • Come to my garden walk, my love. Pass by the fervid flowers that press themselves on your sight. Pass them by, stopping at some chance joy, which like a sudden wonder of sunset illumines, yet elude.

Rabindranath Tagore Poetry • Innermost One • Reading this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore • He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches.

Sylvia Plath Poetry • Bluebeard • Reading this beautiful poem by Sylvia Plath • I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key;

Rumi Poetry • Out of your love • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • Out of your love the fire of youth will rise. In the chest, visions of the soul will rise.

Pablo Neruda Poetry • Love • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda • What's wrong with you, with us, what's happening to us? Ah our love is a harsh cord that binds us wounding us and if we want to leave our wound, to separate, it makes a new knot for us and condemns us

Rumi Poetry • In Love • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness, nothing else exists. There is no reason for living except for giving one's life. I said, "First I know you, then I die." He said, "For the one who knows Me, there is no dying."

Pablo Neruda Poetry • I Remember You As You Were • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda • I remember you as you were in the last autumn. You were the grey beret and the still heart. In your eyes the flames of the twilight fought on. And the leaves fell in the water of your soul.

Pablo Neruda Poetry • I Hunt For A Sign Of You • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda • I hunt for a sign of you in all the others, In the rapid undulant river of women, Braids, shyly sinking eyes, Light step that slices, sailing through the foam.

Rumi Poetry • Birdsong • Reading this beautiful poem by Jalaluddin Rumi • Birdsong brings relief to my longing I'm just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please universal soul, practice some song or something through me!

Rumi Poetry • How Long • Reading this beautiful poem by Rumi • How long will you think about this painful life? How long will you think about this harmful world? The only thing it can take from you is your body. Don't say all this rubbish and stop thinking.

Pablo Neruda Poetry • I Do Not Love You Except • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda • I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire.

Pablo Neruda Poetry • Entrance of the Rivers • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda • Beloved of the rivers,beset By azure water and transparent drops, Like a tree of veins your spectre Of dark goddess biting apples: And then awakening naked To be tattoed by the rivers,

Pablo Neruda Poetry • Brown and Agile Child • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda • Brown and agile child, the sun which forms the fruit And ripens the grain and twists the seaweed Has made your happy body and your luminous eyes And given your mouth the smile of water.

Pablo Neruda Poetry • Clenched Soul • Reading this beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda • We have lost even this twilight. No one saw us this evening hand in hand while the blue night dropped on the world.