Yunus Emre: Life & Poems

Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is considered one of the most important Turkish poets having a great influence on Turkish literature from his own time until today. His poems concern divine love as well as human love of the Divine as God and the Perfect Master, Beloved, Friend and human destiny and weakness. Little is known of his life other than he became a Sufi dervish Perfect Master (Qutub). A contemporary of Rumi, it is told the two great souls met. Here is a large selection of his poems translated into English mainly in the form of the gazel that he often used and one mesnevi. The correct rhyme-structure has been kept as well as the beauty and meaning of these beautiful, mystical poems.