The Mazeppist

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Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Walt Whitman's "Great New Doctrine" (Part 6)

As anticipated by Rumi (Persian poet from the 13th century):

There are wild wandering Sufis
called qalandars,
who are constantly tickled with life.

It's scandalous how they love and laugh
at any small event.

People gossip about them, and that
makes them deft in their cunning,
but really a great God-wrestling goes on
inside these wanderers, a flood of sunlight
that's drunk with the whole thing...

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