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  • What Happens?

    What Happens?

    by Hafez

    What happens when your soul
    Begins to awaken
    Your eyes
    And your heart
    And the cells of your body
    To the great Journey of Love?

    First there is wonderful laughter
    And probably precious tears

    And a hundred sweet promises
    And those heroic vows
    No one can ever keep.

    But still God is delighted and amused
    You once tried to be a saint.

    What happens when your soul
    Begins to awake in this world

    To our deep need to love
    And serve the Friend?

    O the Beloved
    Will send you
    One of His wonderful, wild companions ~
    Like Hafiz.

    From: I Heard God Laughing – Renderings of Hafiz – Daniel Ladinsky

     

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  • Last Night’s Storm

    Last Night’s Storm

    by Hafez

    Last night’s storm was a journey to the Beloved.
    I surrender to that, the wind that
    is my Friend, and my work.

    Each night, the lightning flashes.
    Every morning, a breeze.

    Not in some protected place, but in the flood
    of the heart’s pumping, in the wind
    of a rosebud’s opening out,
    that puts a small crown on each narcissus.

    A tired hand collapses, exhausted,
    that in the morning holds your hair again.

    Peace comes when we are friends together,
    remembering. Hafiz! Your honest desire
    and your benevolence free the soul
    to emerge as what it is.

    From: ‘The Hand of Poetry’ Trans. Inayat Khan/Coleman Barks

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