LOVE AND MOTION

Love is an ocean. This wide sky,
a bit of foam on that... 
   If there were no love,
everything would freeze and be 
Still.
     Instead...
inorganic grains are entering plants, 
plants enter animals--
animals enter spirit,...
     Each sapling lifts, and 
the universe winds 
like a locust swarm 
      its wing rush toward perfection,

Each particle purified

In a song of praise for motion.

--RUMI

From The Book of Love, Rumi poetry edited by Coleman Barks

Also Heartily Recommended:

The Essential Rumi

and The Forbidden Rumi

*The pics are a spiral galaxy and a model of DNA