Category Archives: fasting

Extend Your Shadow

Posted on July 15, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

  If you haven’t been parted from what you truly love then foot cannot follow foot nor heart follow heart Beasts born in the wild have the wild to bring them to their higher education How can we see what … Continue reading →

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Poem: Splendid Excitement of the Coming Day

Posted on July 6, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

  Splendid excitement of the coming day! Palaces might await us filled with the tangiest grapes down esplanades of golden cypresses behind walls we can barely see over at dawn for the height of their occasional distractions But melodious lute … Continue reading →

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    The four corners of the universe can be seen as a little room deep inside the universe with planetary motions out each window as we sit in the center of the room fasting or eating A giant phoenix … Continue reading →

Posted on July 1, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore | Leave a comment

A sandwich at noon is enough tofrighten a field of crows  A telephone ringing in an empty room isanswered by the wind A road leading upward has abicycle on it and two trees When the blessings were brought inthe sun … Continue reading →

Posted on August 9, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | 2 Comments

Elusive Crescent

Posted on August 8, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

Ah coy crescent hiding in a blush of skyso many want to see you and hold you to our heartseach in our own perimeters however spread across the earth all searchingfor your quick eyeblink that promises untold bounteous rewards for … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Irene

Posted on August 6, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

(Note: I attribute the title and theme of this poem, based on the word “Irene” to Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. While we were working on a translation, The Burdah, or The Prayer of the Oppressed, he wanted to use the adjective … Continue reading →

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NIGHTTIME SESSIONS OF LIGHT Intense nighttime sessions of Lightspangle the planetary air and the lunar crescendo yup I said the lunar crescendo as wehead toward Ramadan’s exit back into temptation’s roundelay yup I said temptation’s roundelay that seems to go … Continue reading →

Posted on August 5, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | 1 Comment

Two Poems: If We Woke Up One Morning / Blue Circles

Posted on August 4, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

  IF WE WOKE UP ONE MORNING If we woke up one morning to findwe didn’t exist would the fast be abrogated? Or be more completely fulfilled? If we were avague fractal outline among mountain crags or mounded clouds or … Continue reading →

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Ramadan is a Gorgeous Chorus

Posted on August 3, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

Ramadan is a gorgeous chorusrepeated in a mist above glades of green wheat bending in blue light Ramadan meets itself coming in fromthe rain with its face slick and shining and sits at our table as it vanishes with all … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Fast

Posted on August 1, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

Puppets can’t break their fast through their painted mouths Rocks can be said to be fasting forever Mountain “fastnesses” are a kind of stronghold or fortress Colors are fast that never cut and run The Ramadan fast goes by day … Continue reading →

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A pinpoint and a compass pointa bismin and a galaxy What do they have in common? A cloud in the sky and a thought passingthrough our heads with maybe even more wind behind it A single wave in the sea … Continue reading →

Posted on July 31, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | 1 Comment

If you haven’t been parted fromwhat you truly love then foot cannot follow footnor heart follow heart Beasts born in the wild have thewild to bring them to their higher education How can we see what will wire us to … Continue reading →

Posted on July 28, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | Leave a comment

  Slave stomach said to the rest of the body “I am King!” and the general populace of the body acquiesced worried lest its bond with the world be broken without stomach holding a sovereign position over the rest of … Continue reading →

Posted on July 26, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | Leave a comment

Halfway Through the Fast

Posted on July 25, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

Halfway through the fastis it a giant granite stone we shoulder uphill in a boiling sun? Or pool after reflective shadypool in fragrant afternoons that flow everywhere? Is it coming face to face withourselves holding an empty walnut shell in … Continue reading →

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When the tide of the day pulls out andleaves the night standing on the shore swallowing the stars and the moon is nearly halfway tocompleting its luminous shell and the night stretches its arms toexpand as far as the globe’s … Continue reading →

Posted on July 22, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | Leave a comment

OK let’s get this straight — Who wants to fast really? Put the body through drought’sgrinding chains? Not reach for the plum or the chocolatebonbon? When we see a Chinese contortionist andthink how can she put her head onto her … Continue reading →

Posted on July 21, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | Leave a comment

Ramadan is burnished sunlight on thecheek of the Beloved at the first dawn of creation first fruits burst on first greenbranches in the first Garden their ripening a wholelunar month without being picked till they burst with thecelestial pleasure of … Continue reading →

Posted on July 19, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | Leave a comment

  The Things of This World 1 The things of this world have gone a remove while fasting as if through a kind of glazed window just out of reach which is where they always are though we clutch their … Continue reading →

Posted on July 18, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | Leave a comment