Sweet Melancholy

[arabian night]

Hello :)

I am into Sufism poetry :) So I would like to share one sample with you

Sweet Melancholy


My eyes are teary, my heart is weary!
Weep oh sweet soul while it’s yet dark.
For tomorrow’s sun will shine upon thee,
and make your life twice merry.

Rejoice in the glorious sadness.
For it may go and never come back.
Yield the harvest while ye may,
before it is too late for happiness.

Faith is what makes you realise,
that this agony is but a phase.
It will glow glow till it shines
upon your heart like a sunrise.




Bushra Al-Sayegh

[Dark Muse]

That was quite beautiful

[PrinceMyshkin]

Not, I hope, to take away from the wisdom of the poem you quoted, but it is very reminscent of one of the most familiar carpe diem (seize the day) poems, by Robert Herrick:



To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.



And of course there is Andrew Marvell's marvellous "To His Coy Mistress:"


"Had we but world enough and time
This coyness, Lady, were no crime"

with its chilling lines:



But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;

[arabian night]

Thank you Dark Muse :)

PrinceMyshkin :) thanks for your reply, indeed at first glimpse they do have something in common ...but the one I wrote was because i was in a phase of "delicious", if we can call it, sadness. I was going through a dramatic shock, people around me were worried about me cuz i might a receive a mental shock. On the contrary, I was in a state of peace inside me, I dont know why, but I was enjoying my grief. People might call me insane because the news I have received was very shocking :) Anyway, thank you so much for your comments :)

[lukelord]

Wow, Truly inspiring, it speaks words of beauty, and words of truth, the poem has a true meaning

[arabian night]

Thank you lukelord :) and you sound to be an inspiring person too !

[firefangled]

Thank you Dark Muse :)

PrinceMyshkin :)
...but the one I wrote was because i was in a phase of "delicious", if we can call it, sadness.


I believe that "delicious sadness" (I've called it sweet sadness) is a necessary element for a poet.

Thanks for posting. I look forward to more.

[wron]

Poe's comment on melancholy:

And so, being young and dipt in folly
I fell in love with melancholy,
And used to throw my earthly rest
And quiet all away in jest-
I could not love except where Death
Was mingling his with Beauty's breath-
Or Hymen, Time, and Destiny
Were stalking between her and me.

[arabian night]

Firfangled: Thanks, I totally agree with you. And I promise I would post more :)

Wron: Thank you, I love Edgar Allan Poe gothic style :)