Posts Tagged "Hafiz"
How do I listen?
How do I listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words. —Hafiz
Read MoreStop Being So Religious
What Do sad people have in Common? It seems they have all built a shrine To the past And often go there And do a strange wail and Worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being So...
Read MoreI Wish I Could Speak Like Music
I wish I could speak like music. I wish I could put the swaying splendor Of the fields into words So that you could hold Truth Against your body And dance. I am trying the best I can With this crude brush, the tongue, To cover you with light. I wish I could speak like divine music. I want to give you the sublime rhythms Of this earth and the sky’s limbs As the joyously spin and...
Read MoreVisiting a foreign Country
If you were planning to move to a foreign country and thought you might never return, would not it then be prudent to acclimate yourself to any customs they might have of say…only drinking one certain liquid and nothing else? Then, dears, run to the wineshop, run. for in heaven what can increase your soul’s expanse is all that is ever...
Read MoreYou are one thing only….
You are the Sun in drag You are God hiding from yourself. Remove all the “mine”- that is the veil Why ever worry about Anything? Listen to what our friend Hafiz Knows for certain: the appearance of this world Is a Magi’s brilliant trick, though its affairs are Nothing into nothing. You are a divine elephant with amnesia Trying to live in an ant Hole. Sweetheart, O...
Read MoreWOW !
Where does the real poetry Come from? From the amorous sighs In this moist dark when making love With form or Spirit. Where does poetry live? In the eye that says, “Wow wee,” In the overpowering felt splendor Every sane mind knows When it realizes-our life dance Is only for a few magic Seconds, From the heart saying, Shouting, “I am so...
Read MoreTired of Speaking Sweetly
Love wants to reach out and manhandle us, Break all our teacup talk of God. If you had the courage and Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights, He would just drag you around the room By your hair, Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world That bring you no joy. Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly And wants to rip to shreds All your erroneous notions of truth That make...
Read MoreI Imagine Now for Ages
It Happened Again last Night: Love Popped the cork on itself- Splattered my brains Across the Sky. I imagine now for ages something of Hafiz Will Appear To Fall like Stars. ...
Read MoreBehold Yourself
Like a great film or play everyone should see BEHOLD THYSELF Hints of your beauty the mountains have. The enchanting complexions of the coral reefs are pale to a golden candle in our heart. What moves in any ocean moves through us. A thousand kinds of music play every hour that you orchestrate. Let the next ticket you buy help seat you in front of….your...
Read MoreSplit You Wide Open
Light will someday split you open Even if your life is now a cage For a Divine seed, the crown of destiny, Is hidden and sown on an ancient, fertile plain You hold title to. Life will surely bust you wide open Into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy Even if your mind is now a spoiled mule. A life-giving radiance will come – O look again within yourself, For I know you were once the...
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