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#3242 -
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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Laughing At the Word Two
Only
That Illumined
One
Who keeps
Seducing the formless into form
Had the charm to win my
Heart.
Only a Perfect One
Who is always
Laughing at the word
Two
Can make you know
Of
Love.
From: 'The Gift'
Translated by Daniel
Ladinsky
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All the Hemispheres
Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out
Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills.
Open up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.
Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.
Change rooms in your mind for a day.
All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.
Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.
All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting
While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.
From: 'The Subject Tonight is
Love'
Translated by Daniel
Ladinsky
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I Have Learned So Much
I
Have
Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call
Myself
A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
a Buddhist, a Jew.
The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me
That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
Or even a pure
Soul.
Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me
Of every concept and image
my mind has ever known.
From: 'The Gift'
Translated by Daniel
Ladinsky
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Let Thought Become Your
Beautiful Lover
Let thought become the
beautiful Woman.
Cultivate your mind and
heart to that depth
That it can give you
everything
A warm body can.
Why just keep making love
with God's child-- Form
When the Friend Himself is
standing
Before us
So open-armed?
My dear,
Let prayer become your
beautiful Lover
And become free,
Become free of this whole
world
Like Hafiz.
From: 'The
Gift'
Translated by Daniel
Ladinsky
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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.
From: 'The Gift'
Translated by Daniel
Ladinsky
Compiled by Mazie Lane with photos by Bob O'Hearn