The Bliss of With You have come to me out of antiquities We have loved one another for generations We have loved one another for centuries[...]
Archive for the ‘Lead Poems’ Category
Sheikh Saadi of Shiraz
Two Poems 1. O bird of the morning, learn love from the moth Because it burnt, lost its life, and found no voice.[...]
I want to fly
Hassan Tareq I want to fly— Not in here in the sky[...]
Walt Whitman
The little one sleeps in its cradle The little one sleeps in its cradle, I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.[...]
Attar
The whole world is a marketplace for Love, For naught that is, from Love remains remote. The Eternal Wisdom made all things in Love. On Love they all depend, to Love all turn.[...]
Act of Union
Seamus Heaney I. To-night, a first movement, a pulse, As if the rain in bogland gathered head To slip and flood: a bog-burst, A gash breaking open the ferny bed.[...]
In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul Forever
Muhyiddin ibn Arabi Their spring meadows are desolate now. Still, desire for them lives always in our heart, never dying.[...]
A Dream
William Blake Once a dream did weave a shade O’er my Angel-guarded bed, That an Emmet lost its way Where on grass methought I lay.[...]
From The Garden of Heaven
Hafiz FROM the garden of Heaven a western breeze Blows through the leaves of my garden of earth; With a love like a huri I’ld take mine ease, And wine! bring me wine, the giver of mirth![...]
I Am Part of the Load
Rumi I am part of the load Not rightly balanced I drop off in the grass, like the old Cave-sleepers, to browse wherever I fall.[...]