From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

I was reading "The Kite Runner"...towards the end I came across this passage that is not even written as a poem, but what a beautiful heart-felt poem! It described exactly how I felt. I've rearranged it as a poem:

I want to tear myself from this place,
from this reality,
rise up like a cloud and float away,
melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far,
over the hills.
But I am here,
my legs blocks of concrete,
my lungs empty of air,
my throat burning.
There will be no floating away.
There will be no other reality tonight.

Tango
I saw a documentary about Argentine tango ("Susana Tango Pial") about a famous old milonga in Buenos Aires where a group of primarily senior citizens gather every week to tango, as they have for years. An old man who had returned to dancing tango after years said:

"Tango enters you through your eyes and goes through your heart. But once it reaches your feet, it stays with you for ever."

I immediately took out a pen and paper and scribbled the statement in the dark of the theater. But there was no need for it. That statement had entered me through the eyes (subtitle!) and gone to my heart already. And it will stay with me for ever.

But I would add that tango also enters one through the ears. Tango music is a significant part of the tango experience. Even if you can't tango, you can still appreciate the beauty and soulfulness of its music.

Poetry: Hafez
One of my favorite verses from the first ghazal of Hafez -- "Ke eshgh aasaan nomood aval vali oftaad moshkel-haa":

Shab e taareek o beem e moj o gerdaabi chenin haael Kojaa
daanand haal e maa sabok-baar-aan'e saahel-haa

And here is a lesser known 2-beiti from him sort of in the style of Omar Khayyam:

Gar hamcho man oftaadeye in daam shavi
Ey bas ke kharaab baade o jaam shavi

Maa aashegh o mast o rend o aalam soozim
Baa maa maneshin agar na badnaam shavi