Ruminations

Ruminations

I dance, I spin,

All the time within,

Rumination falls like rain,

When I dance and spin.

Whirling dervish energy connected me to this moment.

The short, almost chant-like quality, with the written repetition of "I dance, I spin" creates a rhythm that feels almost meditative, mirroring an internal state.

While "rumination" often implies repetitive, sometimes anxious, thought, in the context of Rumi and Sufism, it can also suggest a deep, meditative, and internal processing. The composition is indeed repetitious but the repetiton frees the mind allowing one to slowly extract all the nourishment from an experience or a thought. I believe together, the sound combined with the words, in your thoughts, turn the piece from a potential negative connotation of rumination into a positive, transformative act.

Rumi's spirit manifested in poetic verse often speaks of ecstatic internal states, of finding the divine and the vastness of existence within oneself through movement, surrender, and deep contemplation. The lines "I dance, I spin, / All the time within," immediately evoke that whirling dervish energy and the idea of internal spiritual movement.

The music and words together captures a lovely sense of internal grace and processing.