#CHAINS OF FURY POMES FREE#

It is not all that I have done the last three decades, but I did spend some time, almost every day, with Rumi's poetry.

#CHAINS OF FURY POMES FREE#

He got me started on this path, when in June of 1976, he handed me a copy of Arberry's translation of Rumi and said, 'These poems need to be released from their cages,' by which he meant they needed to be translated out of their scholarly idiom into the lively American free verse tradition of Whitman. I began when I was 39 in 1976 at Robert Bly’s Great Mother Conference in Ely, Minnesota. I feel blessed to have spent much of the second half of my life working on the poetry of Rumi. I just love that, because it's like we're both parts of the synapse. So that intersection, that conversation is what a human being is. Rumi says we are a conversation between the one who takes bodily form and something else that is flowing through that was never born and doesn't die. And so that idea of a human being as a dialogue maybe an inaudible dialogue is part of his model for what a human being is.

The implication being that for something to open into its own beauty and handsomeness, it has to be talked to. Rumi says that whatever was said to the rose was said to me here in my chest. It is the longing in a human being to live in unlimited freedom and joy, to move inside beauty, that most profound need of the human soul to flow with the namelessness that animates, lxuriates, burns, and transpires through form, enlivening what is as steam, mist, torrent, saliva, blood, ocean, cloud, coffee, wine, butterfly, tiger, hummingbird, energy, and delight. It is the core of the core of every religion. Rumi’s message can be stated in many ways. He wants us to be more alive, to wake up.…He wants us to see our beauty, in the mirror and in each other. “Rumi is one of the great souls, and one of the great spiritual teachers. The vast majority of Rumi's poems below are translated by the eminent American scholar of Rumi, Coleman Barks who has single-handedly introduced and popularized Maulana Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi better known simply as Rumi here in our beloved America. In the Introduction to “ Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship ,” Coleman Barks writes in part: Therefore, Rumi makes it clear that the religion of love involves loving the eternal and invisible source of existence.' Real belief is apparent only on the inside of a person, which is not visible. Rumi implies that religiosity consists in something other than outward religions. Furthermore, Rumi envisioned a universal faith, embodying all religions, because he understood that the cause of every religious conflict is ignorance. Rumi's writings of the thirteenth century advocate an understanding that there is something beyond religion and scholarly learning that can open our eyes to the reality beyond this existence for Rumi we must climb a spiritual ladder of love. The universal message of Rumi is a hopeful alternative to the ignorance and lack of spirituality in modern times. Love, compassion, tolerance, respect for, openness to, acceptance of the other in his or her otherness and interfaith dialogues are fundamentals of Rumi's thought and practice. Rumi believes that creative love, or the urge to rejoin the spirit to divinity, is the ultimate goal towards which a believer moves. For Rumi, religion was mostly a personal experience and not limited to logical and dogmatic arguments or perceptions of the senses. They speak of the spiritual journey of Man’s ascent through the mind and soul toward the Perfection (God). It is often said that the teachings of Rumi are ecumenical in nature. In fact, this voice is that powerful that this is what the KK’s Priest album should have sounded like.'Rumi’s poetry and prose writings have a spiritual content that is the universal language of the human soul. Furthermore, vocalist Sam Nyman shows that once again, he has the scream of the devil himself as he powers his way through these tracks. This is an EP that gives no regards for what others think as tracks such as ‘Burn in Hell’, ‘Forged in Metal’ and the title track roar with all the undeniable energy of Judas Priest, Primal Fear and Brainstorm. Yeah, ok, these tracks are cheesy, and jam packed with heavy metal clichés, but that’s exactly the reason to love it. During its 20-minute running time, Manimal waste no time in demonstrating that they can play with the big boys of the genre by providing five tracks of molten metal. What Manimal have delivered with ‘Chains of Fury’ is an utterly superb EP of pure, heavy metal.

Yet, this challenge does not phase Manimal who have hit 2021 with a bang by releasing their latest EP ‘Chains of Fury’. When a band releases a top-quality album, it can be hard to emulate or surpass and more often than not, the only way is down.

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