539b - A Poem on Tiles: Fa 3 / 16

رو سینه را چون سینه‌ها هفت آب شو از کینه‌ها
وآنگه شراب عشق را پیمانه شو پیمانه شو

539a - Become A Bushel: En 3 /16

Go wash your bosom from all grudge with seven waters!
Then for love's wine become a bushel!! Become a bushel!!!

Hilat Raha Kon... 1-2 (1 / 8)

Stay with the poem! Colour the tile!

538b - A Poem on Tiles: Fa 2 /16

هم خویش را بیگانه کن هم خانه را ویرانه کن
وآنگه بیا با عاشقان هم خانه شو هم خانه شو

538a - A House Become: En 2 / 16

Estrange yourself, the house destroy, then come! And with the lovers, one for another, a house become!! A house become!!!

537b - A Poem on Tiles: Fa 1 / 16

حیله رها کن عاشقا دیوانه شو دیوانه شو
و اندر دل آتش درآ پروانه شو پروانه شو

537a - A Moth Become: En 1 / 16

O lover leave your schemes behind, crazy become! Into the heart of the fire jump, a moth become!! A moth become!!!

Salams and About

Salam Dear Frogs, Frog Lovers,
Interested Non-frogs and Froggars!

Welcome once again
to the
Sufi Magic Theatre.

From tomorrow, December 25th,

Frogs WB shall run here

a poem of Maulana Rumi

about who we are

and who we can become

if we give up our schemes

and jump sincerely

into the Fire of Love.

The Poem will run until

the second day of February.

Meanwhile our next production

(of which you see some sketches)

is being prepared:

it will be out here

on Thursday, February 14, 2013!

Love and chocolate,
Frogs WB

Good Advice Poem (صد پند)

And with this unplanned “Quartina”
Frogs WB wish you farewell
From the Eternal city of Rome
And from Stazione Tiburtina.

Here Fereydoun, a Persian Sufi
Sells rare books and through Bausani
Frogs read in the “Sad Pand” (100 Advices)
A good advice from poet Zakani.

“If you can -the Poet says-
Never never say the truth
You won’t weigh on others’ hearts
And they won’t be mad at you”.

Akbar's Quatrain

The page numbers interspersed in these drawings refer to the catalogue of the Exhibition AKBAR. The catalogue is available in English or in Italian.

536 and a half / d

Akbar walked 370 km. (230 miles) of dusty road to see that Shaykh!

S/He who loves
Even when s/he licks the dust
s/he sits on a bed of roses.

536 and a half / c

Every year Akbar went on pilgrimage to Ajmer. Walking.
This Chishti website is worth walking through.

536 and a half / b

Akbar, the great Emperor of India (d. 1605), was a devotee of Sufi Salim Chishti.
Allah Hu Akbar

536 and a half / a

The greatest Exhibition in Rome until February 3, 2013: AKBAR!

Piazza Navona

This is the Fountain of the four Rivers, in Piazza Navona. The original strip is HERE.

Spanish Steps

The original strip is HERE.

The Mouth of Truth

This is the Mouth of Truth. The original strip is HERE.

The Moses

This is the Moses by Michelangelo. The original strip is HERE.

A Sweet Kiss

The postcard says: A Honey-flavored Kiss. This little fountain is in the nearby of Piazza Barberini.
The original strip is HERE.

A Hill of Rome

The postcard says: Greetings from the Janiculum.

Vintage Roman Postcards

The original strip is HERE.

Sheep Holds the Fort :-)

This week (Dec. 11-17) Mullah Frögüddin's Assistant, Sheep Nuvoletta (Little Cloud) will edit and republish some Vintage Roman Postcards. Keep returning! :-)

Not for Everybody...

536c

Love and chocolate, Folks! See you here on Tuesday, December 25!!
Have fun!!! I'll hold the fort. Sheep are not safe in Rome...

536b

Ha! I am taking a few days off and fly to Rome!! I miss my Mama!!!
No way of leaving us behind! We are all coming!! We miss the Fountains!!!

536a

And what will YOU do?!?

535c

Such a great idea! Thanks!! Philippe and Nuvoletta keep the strip going with Rumi, while Mimì and Nanan work on our next story from Ariosto & Attar!!!

535b

I think the Cartoonist has it all: in English, Farsi and Italian.
If so, she should put the poem here.

535a

So, my friend! It seems this is the end...
Tsk tsk. What about the Poem?

Doom... Doum... Houm... HU!

534c

...and Everybody is happy.
Poetry Ahoy!

534b

...With Bagpipes, Bendir drums, Dafs, Dhols, Horns, Lutes, Neys, Tablas, Tanburs...

534a

And after lunch all frogs form a big Band! They dance and play around the village...

533c

Instead of Squid ink, "Pesto" is served, while "Trenette" replace "Linguine". Rice is garbed in RED.

533b

The funeral march sad tunes go for joy: it is Wedding March!

533a

Hurrah! The funeral party becomes Frogs' celebration...

All Is Well

532c

Huu هو Hurrah!

532b

You will earn enough to fill this village with chocolate!

532a

You will draw our tiles and our tombstones.

531c

And you are appointed to the Amir.

531b

Your second bag of gold, as promised.

531a

A poem on a portal is a golden key.

Poetry Is Stronger than Stone

530c

We are NOT literalists.

530b

And although you have been asked for a marble key, your work is accepted.

530a

Cartoons for tiles with Rumi's poetry about opening! They will run around the portal of the Islamic Zoo.
The Persian of the poem (F., V, 10-11) is HERE.

529c

I arrive from your workshop. I am pleased you left it open for us to see the cartoons.