Category Archives: ISLAM/SUFISM

FLOWER SHAPES

Posted on March 16, 2015 by danielabdalhayymoore

FLOWER SHAPES Flowers in the shapes of cozy houses, fountains in the shapes of windows opening onto gardens, roadways over bridges in the shape of prancing white horses, bridges leaping over gurgling streams in the shape of two people in … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Saintly Places

Posted on September 22, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

We need to stand in saintly places the way our body needs food to not topple over We need to go there and find nearness there even just a rude rock-strewn place where something saintly took place or is taking … Continue reading →

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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 →

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World Split Apart

Posted on July 26, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

  The façade of a building falls away and reveals a man praying A bakery loses its show-window showing a hundred weddings who’ll have to wait in the next world for their cakes An Orthodox cathedral split in two revealing … Continue reading →

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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: All the Dead Children

Posted on July 12, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

Angels are learning new tricks to entertain all the dead children just bringing them to a quiet place used to be enough blue panels sonorous as cool winds rising to infinite heights and luminous rivers tasting of fresh milk and … 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

First Night of Ramadan

Posted on June 29, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

  A single stone is thrown in and the canyon resounds with the hallelujahs of angels A single breath contains the known and unknown universes Back behind edgeless space are motions that vibrate the heart Back behind ancient mountains and … Continue reading →

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Poem: Great Cruelty and Heartlessness

Posted on June 19, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

  We’re living in a time of great cruelty and heartlessness where instead of a sun they’re throwing up anvils Instead of sunlight there’s the sound of hammers beating Instead of walking there’s kicking Instead of thinking there’s talking It’s … Continue reading →

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THE PATH

Posted on May 31, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

You start early you’re nobody’s fool You set out on foot no snow will stop you Shapes in the mist statues of warriors Arms raised and weapons You’re undaunted no footprints before you You make your way Wolf howls echo … Continue reading →

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HE COMES RUNNING

Posted on March 11, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

(Note: A new chapbook of poems written in Turkey recently, in pocket size format, during sohbets (talks) given by a saintly teacher, my zone listening to the Turkish producing these amiable meditations. Calligraphies punctuate the poems, by great Chinese calligrapher, … Continue reading →

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By Our Smallness We Know Your Vastness

Posted on January 14, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

  O Prophet of Allah, by our smallness we know your vastness, by our electron microscopes we know in this world how very little of the whole world we can know — what shape we are in, what velocity through … Continue reading →

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Winter Scene

Posted on January 7, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

(Note: Though this poem was written in 2001, amazingly it turns out to have been written the same date as tonight, January 7, during one of the coldest Polar Vortex chill blasts I’ve experienced, and certainly the coldest in many … Continue reading →

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FROM A PARTICULAR HEIGHT

Posted on January 1, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

From a particular heighta stone bird is sought From another altitudesilk rain’s beseeched From yet another more daringGod’s outline in the dark His perspective from a peakover all the world The heart like a pinnaclescaled in a blink blind the … Continue reading →

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Sphere of Light

Posted on December 27, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

Waiting fifteen minutes to Fajr Prayerjust this side of the end of the worldkaleidoscoping inward toward us all escalators and fiery stairwaysplummeting through purple smoke totally overpopulated each step withpeople fleeing what’s all around and inside usexcept for occasional beings … Continue reading →

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Where the Greatest Wisdom Is

Posted on December 18, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

  Where the greatest wisdom isis a pewter dish in a room filled with light at the base of a chasm of basaltand the sun tilted on top like a purple feather in flames How do you get thereexcept on … Continue reading →

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ETERNITY

Posted on November 16, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

ETERNITY                                                       Eternity is in love with the productions of time                                     — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1 Sad alabasters and perkypeacock feathers turn to rust in our hands Wave our hands across their smearedfaces … Continue reading →

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Miracle of Sound at the Ka’ba

Posted on October 16, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

What sounds are heard around God’s House? First, utter silence, silence within silence. Then its echo, more silent still. A silence that sits deep under the Throne of God – all other silence surrounds it and slowly turns. Every other … Continue reading →

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