Category Archives: Light

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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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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LITTLE BLACK FLY ON THE WALL

Posted on February 2, 2014 by danielabdalhayymoore

The little black fly on the wall doesn’t stop to think what he knows, those multiple eyes are enough. God’s sight through them shows him the world. Birds don’t think, “Fly or soar as I       might, I’m … 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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BLIZZARD BACCHANAL

Posted on December 12, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

As if the earth were to go on and on forever    another four inch layer of snow silently covers       time and space out the windowstretching all the way to the ocean, icy white powder piled up … 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 →

Posted in 'Eid Greetings, ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, amazement, Hajj, ISLAM/SUFISM, Kaaba, Light, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, Silence, SOUND, Sufi Poetry, The Path, The Soul | 1 Comment

UK VISIT AND POEM

Posted on September 7, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

THE UK VISIT includes, besides the two presentations in Norwich (Friday the 13th at 7PM and Saturday the 14th at 3:30PM), a poetry evening at Rumi’s Cave, Kilburn, London, on Saturday, 21 September, at 7PM, under the auspices of gracious … Continue reading →

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You’ll Sing a Song

Posted on August 24, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

  You’ll sing a song from somewhere out of your depthsand light will hit it and it’ll bea diamond brooch worn at the back ofLayla’s head in a sunny glade it’ll be a drop of water hanging at thetip of … 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 →

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

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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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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A crater opens in the dayand swallows us whole Though we may want towander at the base of it asking for waterwe do not Instead we lean back against its diamondsand act nonchalant Inside us huge circular processionsflow around God’s … Continue reading →

Posted on July 24, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore | 2 Comments

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