This Art

This Art - context Summary

Transformed by Shams' Love

This short lyric presents poetic creation as the byproduct of a spiritual encounter. The speaker learns love and poetics from an inner presence whose beauty and light animate the chest like a hidden dance. Occasionally that interior vision surfaces into conscious sight, and when it does the glimpse is transmuted into art. Read as Rumi, the lines reflect Sufi belief in divine inspiration and the transformative effect of a spiritual guide: an intimate, inward experience becoming outward poetry.