Coleman Barks was almost my inseparable stage companion for the last 40 years…In every concert, I recited several of his Rumi translations over my Yunus Emre songs…I just learned that he left his body and journeyed to the unknown…I hope his journey will be a peaceful one and he will have great togetherness with his beloved Rumi in the heavens. Here si one of his translations I recited in every concert from Honolulu to Manila, from Jakarta to Vanvouver over the years. Thanks Coleman, for your great service to humanity:

“Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn’t make any sense.”

Latif Bolat