hafiz - poetry

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~HAFIZ~

The Happy Virus

I caught the happy virus last night

When I was out singing beneath the stars.

It is remarkably contagious -

So kiss me.

___

All the Hemispheres

Leave the familiar for a while.

Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season

Onto the meadow and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.

ake a new watermark on your e!citement

"nd love.

Like a blooming night flower#

$estow your vital fragrance of happiness

"nd giving

%pon our intimate assembly.

&hange rooms in your mind for a day.

"ll the hemispheres in e!istence

Lie beside an e'uator

In your heart.

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(reet )ourself

In your thousand other forms

"s you mount the hidden tide and travel

$ack home.

"ll the hemispheres in heaven

"re sitting around a fire

&hatting

While stitching themselves together

Into the (reat &ircle inside of

)ou.

***

It Felt Love

+ow

,id the rose

ver open its heart

"nd give to this world

"ll its

$eauty

It felt the encouragement of light

"gainst its

$eing#

Otherwise#

We all remain

/oo

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0rightened.

____

The Day Sky

Let us be like

/wo falling stars in the day sky.

Let no one know of our sublime beauty

"s we hold hands with (od

"nd burn

Into a sacred e!istence that defies -

/hat surpasses

very description of ecstasy

"nd love.

***

Faithful Lover

/he moon came to me last night

With a sweet 'uestion.

She said#

1/he sun has been my faithful lover

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0or millions of years.

Whenever I offer my body to him

$rilliant light pours from his heart.

/housands then notice my happiness

"nd delight in pointing

/oward my beauty.

+afi2#

Is it true that our destiny

Is to turn into Light

Itself1

"nd I replied#

,ear moon#

3ow that your love is maturing#

We need to sit together

&lose like this more often

So I might instruct you

+ow to become

Who you

"re4

____

The Subject Toi!ht is Love

/he sub5ect tonight is Love

"nd for tomorrow night as well#

"s a matter of fact

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In the $eloved8s ,ivine

(ame#

O# in the $eloved8s

Wonderful

(ame.1

***

At This %arty

I don8t want to be the only one here

/elling all the secrets -

0illing up all the bowls at this party#

/aking all the laughs.

I would like you

/o start putting things on the table

/hat can also feed the soul

/he way I do.

/hat way

We can invite

" hell of a lot more

0riends.

***

#ecomi! Huma6



ore kind to every creature and plant

/hat you know.1

***

A &reat 'ee"

Out

Of a great need

We are all holding hands

"nd climbing.

3ot loving is a letting go.

Listen#

/he terrain around here

Is

0ar too

,angerous

0or

/hat.

____

(hy Abstai)

Why

"bstain from love

When like the beautiful snow goose

Someday your soul

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Will leave this summer

&amp

Why

"bstain from happiness

When like a skilled lion

)our heart is

3earing

"nd

Will someday see

/he divine prey is

"lways

3ear4

***

#utteri! the Sky

Slipping

On my shoes#

$oiling water#

/oasting bread#

$uttering the sky9

/hat should be enough contact

With (od in one day

/o make anyone

&ra2y.

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***

A Astroomical *uestio

What

Would

+appen if (od leaned down

"nd gave you a full wet

:iss

+afi2

,oesn8t mind answering astronomical 'uestions

Like that9

)ou would surely start

Reciting all day# inebriated#

Rogue-poems

Like

/his.

___

(hy 'ot #e %olite)

veryone

Is (od speaking.

Why not be polite and

Listen to

+im

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***

Fi" A #etter +ob

3ow

/hat

"ll your worry

+as proved such an

%nlucrative

$usiness#

Why

3ot

0ind a better

;ob.

***

A" For 'o ,easo

"nd

0or no reason

I start skipping like a child.

"nd

0or no reason

I turn into a leaf

/hat is carried so high

I kiss the Sun8s mouth

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Who has to duck his head

When the moon is low#

:eeps dropping keys all night long

0or the

$eautiful

Rowdy

6risoners.

***

.le!ace

It

Is not easy

/o stop thinking ill

Of others.

%sually one must enter into a friendship

With a person

Who has accomplished that great feat himself.

/hen

Something

ight start to rub off on you

Of that

/rue

legance.

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$ottom line9

,o not stop playing

/hese beautiful

Love

(ames.

****

I (at #oth $f 1s

I want both of us

/o start talking about this great love

"s if you# I# and the Sun were all married

"nd living in a tiny room#

+elping each other to cook#

,o the wash#

Weave and sew#

&are for our beautiful

"nimals.

We all leave each morning

/o labor on the earth8s field.

3o one does not lift a great pack.

I want both of us to start singing like two

/ravelling minstrels

"bout this e!traordinary e!istence

We share#

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"s if

)ou# I# and (od were all married

"nd living in

" tiny

Room.

***

Like %assioate Lips

/here are

So many positions of

Love9

ach curve on a branch#

the thousand different ways

)our eyes can embrace us#

/he infinite shapes your

ind can draw#

/he spring

Orchestra of scents#

/he currents of light combusting

Like passionate lips#

/he revolution of !istence8s skirt

Whose folds contain other worlds#

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)our every sign that falls against

+is inconceivable

Omnipresent

$ody.

****

Ima!iatio Does 'ot .2ist

)ou should come close to me tonight wayfarer

0or I will be celebrating you.

)our beauty still causes me madness#

:eeps the neighbours complaining

When I start shouting in the middle of the night

$ecause I can8t bear all this 5oy.

I will be giving birth to suns.

I will be holding forests upside down

(ently shaking soft animals from trees and burrows

Into my lap.

What you conceive as imagination

,oes not e!ist for me.

Whatever you can do in a dream

Or on your mind-canvas

y hands can pull - alive - from my coat pocket.

$ut let8s not talk about my divine world.

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0or what I most want to know

/onight is9

"ll about

)ou.

****

I &ot -i

6lant

So that your own heart

Will grow.

Love

So (od will think#

1"hhhhhh#

I got kin in that body4

I should start inviting that soul over

0or coffee and

Rolls.1

Sing

$ecause this is a food

Our starving world

3eeds.

Laugh

$ecause that is the purest

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