Sunday 26 May 2013

There are so many positions of love...by Hafiz

There are so many positions of love:
each curve on a
branch,

the thousand ways your eyes can hold us,
the infinite shapes each mind
can draw,

the spring orchestra of scents and sounds
wafting through the air,

the currents of light combusting like
passionate
lips,

the revolution of the universe’s skirt,
whose folds contain other worlds,

Our every sigh that falls against
His inconceivably close,
omnipresent,
divine
body.

~ Hafiz

Wednesday 1 May 2013

And For No Reason......by Hafiz

And
For no reason
I start skipping like a child!

And
For no reason
I turn into a leaf
That is carried so high
I kiss the sun's mouth
And dissolve!

And
For no reason
A thousand birds
Choose my head for a conference table
Start passing their
Cups of wine
And their wild songbooks all around!

And
For every reason in existence
I begin to eternally.
To eternally laugh and love!

When I turn into a leaf
And start dancing,
I run to kiss our beautiful Friend
And I dissolve in the Truth
That I am.

~ Hafiz
Translation by Daniel Ladinsky