THE GREAT EXPANSE


Anger

Sinks the boat.

Now we are not praising

That “drowning” in His ocean,

Just crossing the great expanse

Of each minute with all the compassion and

Dignity we can

Find.


-Hafiz-

ahh once again I know the calm

UNTIL


I think we are frightened every

Moment of our lives

Until we

Know

Him


-Hafiz-

A STRANGE FEATHER

All
The craziness,
All the empty plots,
All the ghosts and fears,

All the grudges and sorrows have
Now
Passed.

I must have inhaled
A strange
Feather

That finally

Fell

Out.



-Hafiz-

I AM FULL OF LOVE TONIGHT


I am full of love tonight
Come look into my eyes, and let’s go off
Sailing, my dear, on a long ocean ride.

This world will not touch you,
I will keep you snug upon my seat.

Let’s plot
To make the moon jealous
With a radiance leaping from your cheek.

I will be full of love tonight,
Come look into these ancient eyes!

And let’s go off sailing, my dear,
With our spirits intertwined.

Your body is just an old sandbar
In a speeding hourglass of time.

Love will turn the mouth of sorrow
Right side up.

Let your heart commence its destined
Laughing chime!

Hafiz will be brimful of love tonight,
Why ever be shy?

Come look into the playful eyes of my verse,
They are eternally branded,
Branded with
The Sun.

-Hafiz-

I HOLD THE LION’S PAW

I hold the Lion’s Paw
Whenever I dance.

I know the ecstacy of the falcon’s wings
When they make love against the sky,

And the sun and moon
Sometimes argue over
Who will tuck me in at night.

If you think I am having more fun
Than anyone on this planet
You are absolutely correct.

But Hafiz
Is willing to share all his secrets
About how to befriend God.

Indeed, dear ones,
Hafiz is so very willing
To share all his secrets
About how to know the
Beautiful
One.

I hold the Lion’s Paw whenever I dance.

I know the ecstacy of your heart’s wings
When they make love against the Sky.

And the sun and moon
Will someday argue over
Who will tuck you in at
Night!


-Hafiz-

AN INFANT IN YOUR ARMS


The tide of my love
Has risen so high let me flood over

You.

Close your eyes for a moment
And maybe all your fears and fantasies

Will end.

If that happened
God would become an infant in your

Arms

And then you
Would have to nurse all

Creation!


-Hafiz-

Wow Art I didnt know things like that existed how awessome thanks for sharing I loved reading them

My pleasure GirlyChic.

If you like Hafiz - you will likely enjoy Rumi as well ... there is a thread in the poetry section started by Bl8ant

I needed Hafiz today even more than ever and I found this and wept, my soul knowing what I need now.

Now is the Time

Now is the time to know
That all that you do is sacred.

Now, why not consider
A lasting truce with yourself and God.

Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child's training wheels
To be laid aside
When you finally live
With veracity
And love.

Hafiz is a divine envoy
Whom the Beloved
Has written a holy message upon.

My dear, please tell me,
Why do you still
Throw sticks at your heart
And God?

What is it in that sweet voice inside
That incites you to fear?

Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.

This is the time for you to compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace.

Now is the season to know
That everything you do
Is sacred.

The Happy Virus

I caught the happy virus last night
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me.

(((( Jenni )))))))

(((Jenni))) (((Mom)))

((((( Sherrie ))))))

Blessed Be

((((((((((Mom, Sherrie)))))))))))

Kneel Here With Me

Will you kneel and worship by my side
The eternal love of love’s embrace?

As the lilac garden evaporates herself,
Her life’s breath drifting in a saintly pool,
Of sunshine, the glowing summer,
Not too long after rain,
We inhale her all the way into our soul.

As dusk begins to fall, so slowly now,
And the afternoon makes lazy bees and man,
The clouds drip honey at the horizon of our world,
Sweetly kiss our drowsy eyes with orange and red.

While on the other side of the sky,
Violet blooms at the sharp edge of night,
Trickling cool waters of that deep blue stream,
Drop by droplet the sky reforms,
One star appears, then many many more…

But still are you here peaceful by my side,
Having joined beside my love inside of me.

-s1owhand

Ahhhh, I need these words more than ever today

THE STAIRWAY OF EXISTENCE, STOP BEING SO RELIGIOUS, and all the other words he casts to paper...


... if he didn't exist, would have to invent Hafiz!!!


Thanks ArtGurl