Category Archives: Death

UNTIL THE VERY LAST BREATH

Posted on February 9, 2015 by danielabdalhayymoore

When we look at death’s door it looks like nothing at all Blank and featureless a serious expression on a featureless face that could be gazing across empty desert or a crowded room at a dark frail flower limp on … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, Death, fana fillah, ISLAM/SUFISM, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, Sufi Poetry | 14 Comments

A LITTLE RAMSHACKLE SHACK

Posted on September 11, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

A LITTLE RAMSHACKLE SHACK PART 1 A little ramshackle shack on a hill blown apart by the wind door roof and walls lofted aloft and sent flying no weightier than paper upon which is casually written a name twists in … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, Angel of Deathj, Death, ETERNITY, ISLAM/SUFISM, Music, Music of the Spheres, Muslim Poetry, Muslim Prayer, NINE ELEVEN, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, Silence, Sufi Poetry, World Trade Center Tragedy | 2 Comments

At the Pivot End of a Life

Posted on August 7, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

At the pivot end of a life(between this world and the next) all the sleek black horses lined up forinspection all the torn and tattered love letters tied in theirappropriate bundles and the words we’ve left in the air likewashing … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, Death, fana fillah, fasting, fasting poems, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love of God, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, Ramadan Poetry, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry | 1 Comment

Heart & Soul

Posted on August 2, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

  HEART & SOUL If all my poems seem to end up in the same place it’s because I also want to end up theregrateful to God and showered by the bliss of His Face Starting from a shadow say … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, Death, fasting, fasting poems, ISLAM/SUFISM, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, Ramadan Poetry, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry, waking up | Leave a comment

A flourish of time and a life is completewith its circles and straight lines somehow converging at avanishing point attended by woolen-clad angels awhirl inblue ponds of vertical air singing songs of ancient traditions andneighboring galaxies beyond human translation yet … Continue reading →

Posted on July 15, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | Leave a comment

LIFE OF PI the Movie Just back from seeing The Life of Pi, in 3D, overwhelmed by it, and for me a truly cathartic experience. In it we are face to face with, well, in a metaphorical sense, in not … Continue reading →

Posted on December 13, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore | 3 Comments

Poem: 45 / All Our Attempts at Healing

Posted on September 10, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore

“There’s a cure for everything but death” — Hadith of the Prophet (salla ‘llahu alayhi wa sallam) All our attempts at healing are to elude the long loving arms of death coming around us The doorway filling with a sulfurous … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, cancer treatment, Death, gratitude, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love, Love of God, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry | 2 Comments

Poem: 25 / The Rowers

Posted on July 10, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore

The rowers of the big boats had no letup The trapeze artist has to catch his mate for once in midair it’s too late to be elsewhere A mortal born must go on until there’s no more going on then … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, circus, Death, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love of God, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, saints, Space, Sufi Poetry | 1 Comment

Poem: 23 / Falling

Posted on July 7, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore

If a body starts to fall and there’s nothing to stop it falling how long will it fall and through how many worlds? The visions of our hearts pass in a whooshing whirl The sounds in our ears of every … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, amazement, Death, heaven and earth, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love of God, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, Sufi Poetry, The Prophet | 1 Comment

Poem: 14 / The Lion’s Arena

Posted on July 2, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore

The lions’ arena is full of medical equipment The roar of the lions is the great radiation ring whirring The crowd leaning forward with thumbs at the ready wears chemotherapy gowns It’s a hot day and a restless hum is … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, cancer treatment, Death, ISLAM/SUFISM, Love of God, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY | 2 Comments

Poem: 12 / If I Should Die Tonight

Posted on July 1, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore

If I should die tonight it would be like stepping out onto a big pond’s lily pads with all the other frogs combing out my hair and flames falling onto a plate the horse muzzle that follows me finally coming … Continue reading →

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Poem: 5 / Seeing the Scaffold

Posted on June 27, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore

Seeing the scaffold at the end of the road or a steamroller coming toward you or a herd of elephants bearing down or looking into the maw of a tiger on your morning stroll his teeth and back of throat … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, Angel of Deathj, Death, elephants, fana fillah, ISLAM/SUFISM, Music of the Spheres, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, saints, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry | 6 Comments

Sufi Symposium Poem 3

Posted on April 10, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore

LAST THINGS 1 The last rhinoceros might look around and wonder where its beautiful beady-eyed brothers and sisters went The last waterfall might slide its last cascade down the usual rocks and feel strange The last wheeling bird so used … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, Death, ISLAM/SUFISM, Love of God, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry, Sufi Symposium 2012, The Prophet | Tagged | 1 Comment