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The Poetry of Hafez

My Sweet, Crushed Angel

You have not danced so badly, my dear, Trying to hold hands with the Beautiful One.

You have waltzed with great style, My sweet, crushed angel, To have ever neared God's heart at all.

Our Partner is notoriously difficult to follow, And even His best musicians are not always easy To hear.

So what if the music has stopped for a while.

So what If the price of admission to the Divine Is out of reach tonight.

So what, my dear, If you do not have the ante to gamble for Real Love.

The mind and the body are famous For holding the heart ransom, But Hafiz knows the Beloved's eternal habits.

Have patience, For He will not be able to resist your longing For Long.

You have not danced so badly, my dear, Trying to kiss the Beautiful One.

You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, O my sweet, O my sweet crushed angel.
-- Hafiz


http://blog.gaiam.com/quotes/authors/hafiz?page=4

http://www.thesongsofhafiz.com/index.htm

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/video/363

http://www.thesongsofhafiz.com/hafizpoetry.htm

Belly Dance to the Music of Americanistan! Poetry of Rumi, Hafiz, and Others HOME Music Sound Samples UpcomingEvents Classes with Dunyah Reviews Past Events Dunyah's Page About Us Articles Poetry Gallery Contact Virtual Press Room Links Christmas chant Poetry that inspires us...Poems by Hafiz, Rumi, and othersPlease Note: These "translations" are renditions for modern readers by Coleman Barks, Daniel Ladinsky, and others. Daniel Ladinsky, who did most of the Hafiz offered here, was born and raised in the Midwest. For six years he made his home in a spiritual community in western India, where he worked in a rurla clinic free to the poor, and lived with the disciples and family of Meher Baba. To do the work Ladinsky depended on the translations by Wilberforce Clark published in 1891.
Updated 6/27/12 The Prophet said that women totally dominate men of intellect and possessors of hearts,
But ignorant men dominate women,
for they are shackled by the ferocity of animals. --Rumi     This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of it's furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. --Rumi     This moment, this love, comes to rest in me
many beings in one being
In one wheat grain a thousand sheep stacks

Inside the needle's eye
a turning night of stars

There is a light seed grain inside
you fill it with yourself or it dies

I am caught in this curling energy, your hair
who ever is calm and sensible
is insane! --Rumi     Desse Barama (Peace) by Hamza El Din
The world shines about me, luminous as the moon, smiling like a rose, and a sweet benediction flows through everything existing. How beautiful life is.
I marvel at people who are not in love with life. You, my girl, are beautiful, and your beauty, like the beautiful thought of peace, belongs to the eternity. Detest war and destruction. When you go to the riverbank, and the sun sets in the evening, the waters of the river will be rippling softly, and from a distance, in the twilight, you will see white sails. A song of the boatman will come from there. 'Today no suffering, no suffering.' The world shines about me, luminous as the moon, smiling like a rose.
 

 

THE LUTE WILL BEG

You need to become a pen

In the Sun´s hand.

We need for the earth to sing

Through our pores and eyes.

The body will again become restless

Until your soul paints all its beauty

Upon the sky.

Don´t tell me, dear ones,

That what Hafiz says is not true,

For when the heart tastes its glorious destiny

And you awake to our constant need

for your love

God´s lute will beg

For your hands.

Hafiz

 

Tender Words --Rumi   Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world.   Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret --Hafiz     You Were Brave in that Holy War

You have done well
In the contest of madness.

You were brave in that holy war.

You have all the honorable wounds
Of one who has tried to find love
Where the Beautiful Bird
Does not drink.

May I speak to you
Like we are close
And locked away together?

Once I found a stray kitten
And I used to soak my fingers
In warm milk;

It came to think I was five mothers
On one hand.

Wayfarer,
Why not rest your tired body?
Lean back and close your eyes.

Come morning
I will kneel by your side and feed you.
I will so gently
Spread open your mouth
And let you taste something of my
Sacred mind and life.

Surely
There is something wrong
With your ideas of
God

O, surely there is something wrong
With your ideas of
God

If you think
Our Beloved would not be so
Tender.
  ---"The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the great Sufi Master" translated by
Daniel Ladinsky Every child has known God

Every child has known God,
Not the God of names,
Not the God of don’ts,
Not the God who ever does Anything weird,
But the God who knows only 4 words.
And keeps repeating them, saying:
“Come Dance with Me , come dance.”

-- Hafiz




With That Moon Language

Admit something:

Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."

Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise someone would call the cops.

Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye

that is always saying,

with that sweet moon language,

what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?


 

Stop 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 religious

Like That.

("The Gift" - versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)

I realize that the dawn
when we'll meet again
will never break,

so I give it up,
little by little, this love.

But something in me laughs
as I say this, someone

shaking his head and chuckling
softly, Hardly, hardly


--Rumi a la coleman barks...



Some Kiss We Want

There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of
spirit on the body.


Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.

And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling!

At night, I open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its
face against mine.

Breathe into
me.

Close the language-door and
open the love window.
The moon
won't use the door, only the window.
--Rumi. Translator: Coleman Barks

 

 

Tired 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 you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,
Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.
God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick.
The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:
Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out.
But when we hear
He is in such a "playful drunken mood"
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town.





It happens all the time in heaven


It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day
It will begin to happen
Again on earth -
That men and women who are married,
And men and men who are
Lovers,
And women and women
Who give each other
Light,
Often will get down on their knees
And while so tenderly
Holding their lover's hand,
With tears in their eyes,
Will sincerely speak, saying,
"My dear,
How can I be more loving to you;
How can I be more
Kind?"
--Hafiz

The small man
Builds cages for everyone
He
Knows.

While the sage,
Who has to duck his head
When the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys all night long
For the
Beautiful
Rowdy
Prisoners.

--Hafiz

Someone Should Start Laughing

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:

How are you?

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:

What is God?

If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean

Can pass through that tiny opening
Called the mouth,

O someone should start laughing!

Someone should start wildly Laughing -
Now!


 

A Golden Compass
 
Forget every idea of right and wrong
Any classroom ever taught you
 
Because
An empty heart, a tormented mind,
Unkindness, jealousy and fear
 
Are always the testimony
You have been completely fooled!
 
Turn your back on those
Who would imprison your wondrous spirit
With deceit and lies.
 
Come, join the honest company
Of the King’s beggars –
Those gamblers, scoundrels and divine clowns
And those astonishing fair courtesans
Who need Divine Love every night.
 
Come, join the courageous
Who have no choice
But to bet their entire world
That indeed,
Indeed, God is Real.
 
I will lead you into the Circle
Of the Beloved’s cunning thieves,
Those playful royal rogues –
The ones you can trust for true guidance –
Who can aid you
In this Blessed Calamity of life.
 Hafiz,
Look at the Perfect One
At the Circle’s Center:
 
He Spins and Whirls like a Golden Compass,
Beyond all that is Rational,
 
To show this dear world
 
That Everything,
Everything in Existence
Does point to God.


--Hafiz






  What Happens?
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



Dance, Dervish Dance


Dance, dervish dance----
bring the face of god before you.
only love can lift the heart up so high that its true color is restored by the sun!
see him near and clapping, that perfect one who fathers divine rhythm.
o dance, dervish dance,
and know you bring your master happiness whenever you smile.
last night so many tears took flight because of joy that the sky god crowded and complained
when i discovered god hiding again in my heart
and i could not cease to celebrate.
   hafiz


A poet


A poet is someone
Who can pour Light into a cup
and raise it to nourish your
beautiful parched holy mouth

--Hafiz





Manic Screaming

We should make all spiritual talk simple today
God is trying sell you something but you dont want to buy

That is what your suffering is:
your fantastic haggling
your manic screaming
over
price.

--Hafiz


 

My Eyes So Soft

Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly

let it cut more deep.

Let it ferment and season you

as few human or even divine ingredients can

Something missing in my heart tonight

has made my eyes so soft

my voice so tender

my need of god

absolutely clear.

--Hafiz





Constant Yearning



We are like lutes once held by God.

Being away from his warm body

Fully explains

This constant yearning.
---Hafiz




Look


Look as long as you can
at the friend you love
No matter whether that friend is moving away from you
or coming back toward you.
--Rumi






I didn't trust it for a moment,
but I drank it anyway,
the wine of my own poetry.
It gave me the daring to take hold
of the darkness and tear it down
and cut it into little pieces.  

--Lalla, Contemporary of Hafiz  

The way of love is not a subtle argument.
The door there is devastation.
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall, and falling, they're given wings.
--Rumi




THE SILENT ARTICULATION OF A FACE


Love comes with a knife,
not some shy question,
and not with fears
for its reputation!

I say these things disinterestedly.
Accept them in kind.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes,
running through the mountains, drinking poison,
and now quietly choosing annihilation.

A tiny spider tries to wrap an enormous wasp.
Think of the spiderweb woven across the cave
where Muhammad slept!

There are love stories,
and there is obliteration into love.

You've been walking the ocean's edge,
holding up your robes to keep them dry.
You must dive naked under and deeper under,
a thousand times deeper!

Love flows down!!
The ground submits to the sky and suffers
what comes.

Tell me, is the earth worse
for giving in like that?
Don't put blankets over the drum!
Open completely.
Let your spirit-ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.]

Let the cords of your robe be untied.
Shiver in this new love beyond all above and below.

The sun rises, but which way
does night go?

I have no more words. Let soul speak with the silent
articulation of a face. --Rumi A Barroom View of Love

I would not want all my words
To parade around this world
In pretty costumes,

So I will tell you something
Of the Barroom view of Love.

Love is grabbing hold of the Great Lion's mane
And wrestling and rolling deep into Existence

While the Beloved gets rough
And begins to maul you alive.

True Love, my dear,
Is putting an ironclad grip upon

The soft, swollen balls
Of a Divine Rogue Elephant

And
Not having the good fortune to Die!
--Hafiz   

My Sweet, Crushed Angel
You have not danced so badly, my dear,
Trying to hold hands with the Beautiful One.
You have waltzed with great style, My sweet, crushed angel, To have ever neared God's heart at all.
Our Partner is notoriously difficult to follow,
And even His best musicians are not always easy To hear.
So what if the music has stopped for a while.
So what If the price of admission to the Divine Is out of reach tonight.
So what, my dear, If you do not have the ante to gamble for Real Love.
The mind and the body are famous For holding the heart ransom,
But Hafiz knows the Beloved's eternal habits.
Have patience, For He will not be able to resist your longing For Long.
You have not danced so badly, my dear, Trying to kiss the Beautiful One.
You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, O my sweet, O my sweet crushed angel.
-- Hafiz * * *


I saw you dancing last night on the roof of your house all alone.
I felt your heart longing for the Friend.
I saw you whirling beneath the soft bright rose that hung from an invisible stem in the sky.
So I began to change into my best clothes in hopes of joining you, even though I live a thousand miles away.
And if you had spun like an immaculate sphere just two more times, then bowed again so sweetly to the east, you would have found God and me standing so near and lifting you into our arms.
I saw you dancing last night near the roof of this world ---Hafiz  


Dance when you're broken open.
Dance when you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you're perfectly free.
Struck, the dancer hears a tambourine inside her, like a wave that crests into foam at the very top, Begins.
Maybe you don't hear that tambourine, or the tree leaves clapping time.
Close the ears on your head, that listen mostly to lies and cynical jokes.
There are other things to see, and hear.
Music.
Dance.
A brilliant city inside your soul! --Rumi 


 
Selections from I Heard God Laughing, Tonight the Subject is Love, and

The Gift, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, selected by Jason Espada.

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From ‘I Heard God Laughing’

1. Introduction 1

2. You Are with the Friend Now 2

3. And Applaud 3

4. Cast All Your Votes for Dancing 5

5. The Jeweler 7

6. Saints Bowing in the Mountains 8

7. Zero 9

8. If It Is Not Too Dark 10

9. Awake Awhile 11

10. I Know the Way You Can Get 12

11. The Only Sin I Know 14

12. Laughter 15

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From ‘Tonight the Subject is Love’

13. At this Party 16

14. No Other Kind of Light 17

15. Not With Wings 18

16. Venus Just Asked Me 20

17. Ten Thousand Idiots 21

From ‘The Gift’

18. My spring eyes… 22

19. A Poet 22

20. Looking for Good Fish 23

21. We Have Not Come to Take Prisoners 24

22. I Rain 25

23. God Just Came Near 26

24. The Sun Never Says 27

25. Why Just Ask the Donkey 28

26. You carry all the ingredients… 30

27. Curfews 31

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28. Art is the conversation… 32

29. The Vintage Man 33

30. Just Looking for Trouble 34

31. The Gift 35

32. The Scent of Light 36

33. The Stairway of Existence 37

34. Behind the veil Hafiz… 38

35. Stop Being So Religious 39

36. It Felt Love 40

37. Two Bears 41

38. The Warrior 42

39. Tiny Gods 43

40. Elegance 44

41. Dropping Keys 45

42. Spiced Manna 46

43. Becoming Human 47

44. The Thousand-Stringed Instrument 48

45. The God Who Only Knows Four Words 49

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46. The Diamond Takes Shape 50

47. What is the Root? 51

48. Troubled? 52

49. Act Great 53

1

From ‘I Heard God Laughing’

Introduction

Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (c. 1320-1389), though little known in the

Western world, is the most beloved poet of Persia (Iran). To Persians, the

poems of Hafiz are not "classical literature" from a remote past, but

cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend. The special gift of this

friend is a poetry unique in world literature, a poetry that celebrates every

expression of love in the universe.

The lyrics of Hafiz overflow with a profound appreciation of the beauty and

richness of life when seen through the eyes of love. With unerring insight,

he explores the feelings and motives associated with every level of love,

tracing each nuance of emotion in depth and detail. His poetry outlines the

stages of the mystic's "path of love" that journey of inner unfolding in which

love dissolves personal boundaries and limitations to join larger processes of

growth and transformation. Through these processes, human love becomes

divine love and the lover merges ultimately with the source and goal of all

love, which Hafiz calls the Divine Beloved.


2

You Are with the Friend Now

Hafiz describes some of the preparations required for the inner

"Journey of Love." He urges us to let go of habitual negative attitudes

and unnecessary attachments, which only weigh us down. To make

this Journey, we must be light, happy and free to go Dancing!

'I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness,

The Astonishing Light Of your own Being"

3

And Applaud

Once a young man came to me and said,

"Dear Master,

I am feeling strong and brave today, And I would like to know the truth

About all of my-attachments."

And I replied,

"Attachments?

Attachments!

Sweet Heart,

Do you really want me to speak to you

About all your attachments,

When I can see so clearly

You have built, with so much care,

Such a great brothel

To house all of your pleasures.

You have even surrounded the whole damn place

With armed guards and vicious dogs

To protect your desires

So that you can sneak away

From time to time

And try to squeeze light

Into your parched being

From a source as fruitful

As a dried date pit

That even a bird

Is wise enough to spit out.

Your attachments! My dear,

Let's not speak of those,

4

For Hafiz understands the sufferings

Of your heart.

Hafiz knows

The torments and the agonies

That every mind on the way to Annihilation in the Sun

Must endure.

So at night in my prayers I often stop

And ask a thousand angels to join in

And Applaud,

And Applaud

Anything,

Anything in this world

That can bring your heart comfort!"

5

Cast All Your Votes for Dancing

I know the voice of depression

Still calls to you.

I know those habits that can ruin your life

Still send their invitations .

But you are with the Friend now

And look so much stronger.

You can stay that way

And even bloom!

Keep squeezing drops of the Sun

From your prayers and work and music

And from your companions' beautiful laughter.

Keep squeezing drops of the Sun

From the sacred hands and glance of your Beloved

And, my dear,

From the most insignificant movements

Of your own holy body.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins

That may buy you just a moment of pleasure,

But then drag you for days

Like a broken man

Behind a farting camel.

You are with the Friend now.

Learn what actions of yours delight Him,

What actions of yours bring freedom

And Love.

Whenever you say God's name, dear pilgrim,

My ears wish my head was missing

So they could finally kiss each other

And applaud all your nourishing wisdom!

6

O keep squeezing drops of the Sun

From your prayers and work and music

And from your companions' beautiful laughter

And from the most insignificant movements

Of your own holy body.

Now, sweet one,

Be wise.

Cast all your votes for Dancing!

7

The Jeweler

If a naive and desperate man

Brings a precious stone

To the only jeweler in town,

Wanting to sell it,

The jeweler's eyes

Will begin to play a game,

Like most eyes in the world when they look at you.

The jeweler's face will stay calm.

He will not want to reveal the stone's true value,

But to hold the man captive to fear and greed

While he calculates

The value of the transaction.

But one moment with me, my dear,

Will show you

That there is nothing,

Nothing

Hafiz wants from you.

When you sit before a Master like me,

Even if you are a drooling mess,

My eyes sing with Excitement

They see your Divine Worth.

8

Saints Bowing in the Mountains

Do you know how beautiful you are?

I think not, my dear.

For as you talk of God,

I see great parades with wildly colorful bands

Streaming from your mind and heart,

Carrying wonderful and secret messages

To every corner of this world.

I see saints bowing in the mountains

Hundreds of miles away

To the wonder of sounds

That break into light

From your most common words.

Speak to me of your mother,

Your cousins and your friends.

Tell me of squirrels and birds you know.

Awaken your legion of nightingales -

Let them soar wild and free in the sky

And begin to sing to God.

Let's all begin to sing to God!

Do you know how beautiful you are?

I think not, my dear,

Yet Hafiz

Could set you upon a Stage

And worship you forever!

9

Zero

Zero

Is where the Real Fun starts.

There's too much counting

Everywhere else!

10

If It Is Not Too Dark

Go for a walk, if it is not too dark.

Get some fresh air, try to smile.

Say something kind

To a safe-looking stranger, if one happens by.

Always exercise your heart's knowing.

You might as well attempt something real

Along this path:

Take your spouse or lover into your arms

The way you did when you first met.

Let tenderness pour from your eyes

The way the Sun gazes warmly on the earth.

Play a game with some children.

Extend yourself to a friend.

Sing a few ribald songs to your pets and plants –

Why not let them get drunk and wild!

Let's toast

Every rung we've climbed on Evolution's ladder.

Whisper, "I love you! I love you!"

To the whole mad world.

Let's stop reading about God -

We will never understand Him.

Jump to your feet, wave your fists,

Threaten and warn the whole Universe

That your heart can no longer live

Without real love!

11

Awake Awhile

Awake awhile.

It does not have to be

Forever,

Right now.

One step upon the Sky's soft skirt

Would be enough.

Hafiz,

Awake awhile.

Just one True moment of Love

Will last for days.

Rest all your elaborate plans and tactics

For Knowing Him,

For they are all just frozen spring buds

Far,

So far from Summer's Divine Gold.

Awake, my dear.

Be kind to your sleeping heart.

Take it out into the vast fields of Light

And let it breathe.

Say,

"Love,

Give me back my wings.

Lift me,

Lift me nearer."

Say to the sun and moon,

Say to our dear Friend,

"I will take You up now, Beloved,

On that wonderful Dance You promised!"

12

I Know the Way You Can Get

I know the way you can get

When you have not had a drink of Love:

Your face hardens,

Your sweet muscles cramp.

Children become concerned

About a strange look that appears in your eyes

Which even begins to worry your own mirror

And nose.

Squirrels and birds sense your sadness

And call an important conference in a tall tree.

They decide which secret code to chant

To help your mind and soul.

Even angels fear that brand of madness

That arrays itself against the world

And throws sharp stones and spears into

The innocent

And into one's self

O I know the way you can get

If you have not been out drinking Love:

You might rip apart

Every sentence your friends and teachers say,

Looking for hidden clauses.

You might weigh every word on a scale

Like a dead fish.

You might pull out a ruler to measure

From every angle in your darkness

The beautiful dimensions of a heart you once

Trusted.

13

I know the way you can get

If you have not had a drink from Love's

Hands.

That is why all the Great Ones speak of

The vital need

To keep Remembering God,

So you will come to know and see Him

As being so Playful

And Wanting,

Just Wanting to help.

That is why Hafiz says:

Bring your cup near me,

For I am a Sweet Old Vagabond

With an Infinite Leaking Barrel

Of Light and Laughter and Truth

That the Beloved has tied to my back.

Dear one,

Indeed, please bring your heart near me.

For all I care about

Is quenching your thirst for freedom!

All a Sane man can ever care about

Is giving Love!

14

The Only Sin I Know

If someone sits with me

And we talk about the Beloved,

If I cannot give his heart comfort,

If I cannot make him feel better

About himself and this world,

Then, Hafiz,

Quickly run to the mosque and pray -

For you have just committed

The only sin I know.

15

Laughter

What is laughter? What is laughter?

It is God waking up! O it is God waking up!

It is the sun poking its sweet head out

From behind a cloud

You have been carrying too long,

Veiling your eyes and heart.

It is Light breaking ground for a great Structure

That is your Real body- called Truth.

It is happiness applauding itself and then taking flight

To embrace everyone and everything in this world.

Laughter is the polestar

Held in the sky by our Beloved,

Who eternally says,

"Yes, dear ones, come this way,

Come this way toward Me and Love!

Come with your tender mouths moving

And your beautiful tongues conducting songs

And with your movements - your magic movements

Of hands and feet and glands and cells - Dancing!

Know that to God's Eye,

All movement is a Wondrous Language,

And Music - such exquisite, wild Music!"

O what is laughter, Hafiz?

What is this precious love and laughter

Budding in our hearts?

It is the glorious sound

Of a soul waking up!

16

From ‘Tonight the Subject is Love’

At this Party

I don’t want to be the only one here

Telling all the secrets -

Filling up all the bowls at this party,

Taking all the laughs.

1 would like you

To start putting things on the table

That can also feed the soul

The way 1 do.

That way We can invite

A hell of a lot more

Friends.

17

No Other Kind of Light

Find that flame, that love,

That Wonderful Man

Who can bum beneath the water.

No other kind of light

Will cook the food you

Need.

18

Not With Wings

Here soar

Not with wings

But with your moving hands and feet

And sweating brows –

Standing by your Beloved’s side

Reaching out to comfort this world

With your cup of solace

Drawn from your vast reservoir of Truth.

Here soar

Not with your eyes and senses

That turn their backs

On the earth’s sweet stumbling dance

Which needs you.

Here love, O here love,

With your mouth tender and open upon your lover,

And with your heart on duty

To the souls of rivers, children, forest animals,

All the shy feathered ones and laughing, jumping,

Shining fish.

O here, pilgrim,

Love

On this holy battleground of life

Where there are bleeding men

Who are calling for a sacred drink,

A gentle word or touch from man

Or God.

19

Hafiz! why just serve and play with angels?

They are already content.

Brew your knowledge well for men

With aching minds and guts!

And for those wayfarers who have gained

The rare courageous thirsts

That can never be relinquished

Until Union!

Hafiz!

Leave your recipes in golden drums.

Tie those barrels to the backs of camels

Who will keep circumambulating the worlds,

Giving nourishment

To all our tender wondrous spheres.

O here love, O love right here.

Find your happiness, dear wayfarer,

With your beautiful lips and body

So sweetly opened,

Yielding their vital gifts upon

This magnificent

Earth.

20

Venus Just Asked Me

Perhaps

For just one minute out of the day,

It may be of value to torture yourself

With thoughts like,

“I should be doing

A hell of a lot more with my life than I am -

Cause I’m so damn talented.”

But remember,

For just one minute out of the day.

With all the rest of your time,

It would be best

To try

Looking upon your self more as God does.

For He knows

Your true royal nature.

God is never confused

And can see Only Himself in you.

My dear,

Venus just leaned down and asked me

To tell you a secret, to confess

She’s just a mirror who has been stealing

Your light and music for centuries.

She knows as does Hafiz,

You are the sole heir to

The King.

21

Ten Thousand Idiots

It is always a danger

To the aspirant

On the

Path

When one begins

To believe and

Act

As if the ten thousand idiots

Who so long ruled

And lived

Inside

Have all packed their bags

And skipped town

Or

Died .

22

From ‘The Gift’

My spring eyes still warm faces, and awake verdant earths in your soul.

A Poet

A Poet is someone

Who can pour light into a cup,

Then raise it to nourish

Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.

23

LOOKING FOR GOOD FISH

Why complain about life

If you are looking for good fish

And have followed some idiot

Into the middle of the copper market?

Why go crazy

If you are looking for fine silk

And you keep rubbing your hands against

Burlap and hemp sacks?

If your heart really needs to touch a face

That is filled with abundance

Then why didn't you come to this

Old Man sooner?

For my cheek is the universe's cloister

And if you can make your prayers sweet enough

Tonight

Then Hafiz will lean over and offer you

All the warmth in my body

In case God is busy

Doing something else

Somewhere.

Why complain if you are looking

To quench your spirit's longing

And have followed a rat into a desert.

If your soul really needs to touch a face

That is always filled with compassion

And tenderness

Then why,

Why my dear

Did you not come to your friend Hafiz

Sooner?

24

WE HAVE NOT COME TO

TAKE PRISONERS

We have not come here to take prisoners,

But to surrender ever more deeply

To freedom and joy.

We have not come into this exquisite world

To hold ourselves hostage from love.

Run my dear,

From anything

That may not strengthen

Your precious budding wings.

Run like hell my dear,

From anyone likely

To put a sharp knife

Into the sacred, tender vision

Of your beautiful heart.

We have a duty to befriend

Those aspects of obedience

That stand outside of our house

And shout to our reason

"O please, O please,

Come out and play."

For we have not come here to take prisoners

Or to confine our wondrous spirits,

But to experience ever and ever more deeply

Our divine courage, freedom, and

Light!

25

I RAI N

I rain

Because your meadows call

For God.

I weave light into words so that

When your mind holds them

Your eyes will relinquish their sadness,

Turn bright, a little brighter, giving to us

The way a candle does

To the dark.

I have wrapped my laughter like a birthday gift

And left it beside your bed.

I have planted the wisdom in my heart

Next to every signpost in the sky.

A wealthy man

Often becomes eccentric,

A divine crazed soul

Is transformed into infinite generosity

Tying gold sacks of gratuity

To the dangling feet of moons, planets, ecstatic

Midair dervishes, and singing birds.

I speak

Because every cell in your body

Is reaching out

For God.

26

GOD JUST CAME NEAR

No

One

In need of love

Can sit with my verse for

An hour

And then walk away without carrying

Golden tools,

And feeling that God

Just came

Near.

27

THE SUN NEVER SAYS

Even

After

All this time

The sun never says to the earth,

“You owe

Me.”

Look

What happens

With a love like that,

It lights the

Whole

Sky.

28

WHY JUST ASK THE DONKEY

Why

Just ask the donkey in me

To speak to the donkey in you,

When I have so many other beautiful animals

And brilliant colored birds inside

That are all longing to say something wonderful

And exciting to your heart?

Let's open all the locked doors upon our eyes

That keep us from knowing the Intelligence

That begets love

And a more lively and satisfying conversation

With the Friend.

Let's turn loose our golden falcons

So that they can meet in the sky

Where our spirits belong -

Necking like two

Hot kids.

Let's hold hands and get drunk near the sun

And sing sweet songs to God

Until He joins us with a few notes

From His own sublime lute and drum.

If you have a better idea

Of how to pass a lonely night

After your glands may have performed

All their little magic

Then speak up sweethearts, speak up,

For Hafiz and all the world will listen.

Why just bring your donkey to me

Asking for stale hay

29

And a boring conference with the idiot

In regards to this precious matter –

Such a precious matter as love,

When I have so many other divine animals

And brilliant colored birds inside

That are all longing

To so sweetly

Greet

You!

30

You carry all the ingredients

To turn your existence into joy,

Mix them, mix

Them!

31

CURFEWS

Noise

Is a cruel ruler

Who is always imposing

Curfews,

While

Stillness and quiet

Break open the vintage

Bottles,

Awake the real

Band.

32

Art is the conversation between lovers.

Art offers an opening for the heart.

True art makes the divine silence in the soul

Break into applause.

Art is, at last, the knowledge of

Where we are standing –

Where we are standing

In this Wonderland

When we rip off all our clothes

And this blind man's patch, veil,

That got tied across our brow.

Art is the conversation between lovers.

True art awakes the

Extraordinary

Ovation.

33

THE VINTAGE MAN

The

Difference

Between a good artist

And a great one

Is:

The novice

Will often lay down his tool

Or brush

Then pick up an invisible club

On the mind's table

And helplessly smash the easels and

Jade.

Whereas the vintage man

No longer hurts himself or anyone

And keeps on Sculpting

Light.

34

JUST LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

I once had a student

Who would sit alone in his house at night

Shivering with worries

And fears,

And, come morning,

He would often look as though

He had been raped

By a ghost.

Then one day my pity

Crafted for him a knife

From my own divine sword.

Since then,

I have become very proud

Of this student.

For now, come night,

Not only has he lost all his fear,

Now he goes out

Just looking for

Trouble.

35

The Gift

Our

Union is like this:

You feel cold

So I reach for a blanket to cover

Our shivering feet.

A hunger comes into your body

So I run to my garden

And start digging potatoes.

You ask for a few words of comfort and guidance,

I quickly kneel at your side offering you

This whole book-

As a gift.

You ache with loneliness one night

So much you weep

And I say,

Here's a rope,

Tie it around me,

Hafiz

Will be your companion

For life.

36

THE SCENT OF LIGHT

Like a great starving beast

My body is quivering

Fixed

On the scent

Of

Light.

37

THE STAIRWAY OF EXISTENCE

We

Are not

In pursuit of formalities

Or fake religious Laws,

For through the stairway of existence

We have come to God's

Door.

We are

People who need to love, because

Love is the soul's life,

Love is simply creation's greatest joy.

Through

The stairway of existence,

O, through the stairway of existence, Hafiz,

Have

You now come,

Have we all now come to

The Beloved's

Door.

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Behind the veil Hafiz and angels sometimes weep

Because most eyes are rarely glad

And your divine beauty is still too frightened

To unfurl its thousand swaying arms.

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STOP 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 religious

Like

That.

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IT FELT LOVE

How

Did the rose

Ever open its heart

And give to this world

All its

Beauty?

It felt the encouragement of light

Against its

Being,

Otherwise,

We all remain

Too

Frightened.

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TWO BEARS

Once

After a hard day's forage

Two bears sat together in silence

On a beautiful vista

Watching the sun go down

And feeling deeply grateful

For life.

Though, after a while

A thought-provoking conversation began

Which turned to the topic of

Fame.

The one bear said,

"Did you hear about Rustam?

He has become famous

And travels from city to city

In a golden cage;

He performs to hundreds of people

Who laugh and applaud

His carnival

Stunts."

The other bear thought for

A few seconds

Then started

Weeping.

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THE WARRIOR

The warriors tame

The beasts in their past

So that the night's hoofs

Can no longer break the jeweled vision

In the heart.

The intelligent and the brave

Open every closet in the future and evict

All the mind's ghosts who have the bad habit

Of barfing everywhere.

For a long time the Universe

Has been germinating in your spine

But only a Pir* has the talent,

The courage to slay

The past-giant, the future-anxieties.

The warrior

Wisely sits in a circle

With other men

Gathering the strength to unmask

Himself,

Then

Sits, giving,

Like a great illumined planet on

The

Earth.

* Persian: Saint

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Tiny Gods

Some gods say, the tiny ones,

"1 am not here in your vibrant, moist lips

That need to beach themselves upon

The golden shore of a

Naked body."

Some gods say, "I am not

The scarred yearning in the unrequited soul;

I am not the blushing cheek

Of every star and

Planet-

I am not the applauding Chef

Of those precious secretions that can distill

The whole mind into a perfect wincing jewel, if only

For a moment;

Nor do 1 reside in every pile of sweet warm dung

Born of the earth's

Gratuity."

Some gods say, the ones we need to hang,

"Your mouth is not designed to know His,

Love was not born to consume

The luminous

Realms."

Dear ones,

Beware of the tiny gods frightened men

Create

To bring an anesthetic relief

To their sad

Days.

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ELEGANCE

It

Is not easy

To stop thinking ill

Of others.

Usually one must enter into a friendship

With a person

Who has accomplished that great feat himself

Then

Something

Might start to rub off on you

Of that

True

Elegance.

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DROPPING KEYS

The small man

Builds cages for everyone

He

Knows.

While the sage,

Who has to duck his head

When the moon is low,

Keeps dropping keys all night long

For the

Beautiful

Rowdy

Prisoners.

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Spiced Manna

Someone

Will steal you if you don't

Stay near,

And sell you as a slave in the

Market.

I sing

To the nightingales' hearts

Hoping they will learn

My verse

So that no one will ever imprison

Your brilliant angel

Feathers.

Have I put enough spiced manna

On your plate

Tonight

In this Tavern

Where Hafiz

Serves?

If not please wait

For more light is now

Fermenting.

Someone will steal you if you

Don't stay near,

And sell you as a slave in

The market,

So your Beloved and I

Sing.

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BECOMING HUMAN

Once a man came to me and spoke for hours about

"His great visions of God" he felt he was having.

He asked me for confirmation, saying,

"Are these wondrous dreams true?"

I replied, "How many goats do you have?"

He looked surprised and said,

"I am speaking of sublime visions

And you ask

About goats!"

And I spoke again saying,

"Yes, brother – how many do you have?"

"Well, Hafiz, I have sixty-two."

'And how many wives?"

Again he looked surprised, then said,

"Four."

"How many rose bushes in your garden,

How many children,

Are your parents still alive,

Do you feed the birds in winter?"

And to all he answered.

Then I said,

"You asked me if I thought your visions were true,

I would say that they were if they make you become

More human,

More kind to every creature and plant

That you know."

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THE THOUSAND-STRINGED INSTRUMENT

The heart is

The thousand-stringed instrument.

Our sadness and fear come from being

Out of tune with love.

All day long God coaxes my lips

To speak,

So that your tears will not stain

His green dress.

It is not that the Friend is vain,

It is just your life we care about.

Sometimes the Beloved

Takes my pen in hand,

For Hafiz is just a simple man.

The other day the Old One

Wrote on the Tavern wall:

"The heart is

The thousand-stringed instrument

That can only be tuned with

Love.”

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The God Who Only Knows

Four Words

Every

Child

Has known God,

Not the God of names,

Not the God of don'ts,

Not the God who ever does

Anything weird,

But the God who only knows four words

And keeps repeating them, saying:

"Come dance with Me."

Come

Dance.

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THE DIAMOND TAKES SHAPE

Some parrots

Have become so skilled with

The human voice

They could give a brilliant discourse

About freedom and God

And an unsighted man nearby might

Even begin applauding with

The thought:

I just heard jewels fall from a

Great saint's mouth,

Though my Master used to say,

"The diamond takes shape slowly

With integrity's great force,

And from

The profound courage to never relinquish love."

Some parrots have become so skilled

With words,

The blind turn over their gold

And lives to caged

Feathers.

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WHAT IS THE ROOT?

What

Is the

Root of all these

Words?

One thing: love.

But a love so deep and sweet

It needed to express itself

With scents, sounds, colors

That never before

Existed.

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TROUBLED?

Troubled?

Then stay with me, for I'm not.

Lonely?

A thousand naked amorous ones dwell in ancient caves

Beneath my eyelids.

Riches?

Here's a pick,

My whole body is an emerald that begs,

“Take me.”

Write all that worries you on a piece of parchment;

Offer it to God.

Even from the distance of a millennium

I can lean the flame in my heart

Into your life

And turn

All that frightens you

Into holy

Incense

Ash.

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ACT GREAT

What is the key

To untie the knot of your mind's suffering?

What

Is the esoteric secret

To slay the crazed one whom each of us

Did wed

And who can ruin

Our heart's and eye's exquisite tender

Landscape?

Hafiz has found

Two emerald words that

Restored

Me

That I now cling to as I would sacred

Tresses of my Beloved's

Hair:

Act great.

My dear, always act great.

What is the key

To untie the knot of the mind's suffering?

Benevolent thought, sound

And movement.

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