OMAR KHYYAM
A thousand-year-old poem.
References I couldn't really comprehend.
A translation
That may or may not
Have reflected
The views of the poet, entirely.
And yet it spoke to me.
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Steeped, as I was, in biblical references,
Through my family's intense involvement,
In Christianity,
It was like a gale
Sweeping through my life.
As it has swept through the lives
Of so many others.
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It was
The Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam.
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Speak of poets...
Quote him.
Speak of philosophy....
Refer to his teachings.
Consider astronomy....
He mapped the stars.
Talk of algebra.....
He dissected the topic!
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What a man!
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And his message?
To live life to the full,
Without any inducements;
To embrace the present
And accept oblivion.
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Now I learn that he is barely known in Iran,
Which once was his Persia!
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What would he make of that?
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My copy of the Rubaiyat
Is thumbed and faded now.
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In a good cause.
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How Belief spreads here:
http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2009/04/meme-scheme.html
