Rumi's Poetry
In Our Time
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Roomy's Poems
Ina masne: Roomy uses very, very simple language that everyone can understand. One of the most engaging things about rumy's poetry in the masenovi is his story telling. In a story which looks like a romance when it starts, but turns into what one scholar's called an anti folk loric tale. It actually turns very dark. The girl falls out of love with her lover, and she dies. And so the whole thing ends badly. But in the meantime, there has been a divine messenger who comes down from heaven and tells sir the king what's really wrong with the slave girland. He then halds this goldsmith from horasan, all
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