Category Archives: The Prophet

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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Poem: The Perfect Moon-Faced One

Posted on February 14, 2013 by danielabdalhayymoore

The perfect moon-faced one appears with perfect lips and bow-like eyebrows. His hair is braided behind his ears and this pure appearance of his arouses our trust that unity will thrive and we’ll be taken to One Presence now that … Continue reading →

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Poem: 43 / His Most Precious Concern

Posted on October 25, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore

(Note: This poem from my “Treatment” series, in honor of the ‘Eid al-Kabir, celebrated soon all over the world, and the salat-an-Nabi billion-believer recitation after Maghreb Prayer on Sunday, November 4, insha’Allah, and personally, it seems, the emergence from cancer … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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SUFI SYMPOSIUM POEMS 2

Posted on April 2, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore

KNOT OF GOLD The Prophet took people of abject poverty and strewed rubies at their feet There was no glass in the Prophet’s windows for any brick to break In each heart he ties a knot of gold whose two … Continue reading →

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POETRY AT THE SUFI SYMPOSIUM 2012

Posted on February 8, 2012 by danielabdalhayymoore

I’ll be presenting my poetry at the Sufi Symposium this year in San Rafael, should you be nearby to attend. Check with the website listed for program times, all insha’Allah. (I’m the guy in the red scarf, at the lower … Continue reading →

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Poem: The World Went Away

Posted on October 29, 2011 by danielabdalhayymoore

1 The world went away on a hunting trip and left us alone in the long and short corridors and sudden staircases ascending heavenly levels A gray light entered around us with whispering tread and a soft electrical energy whose … Continue reading →

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Poem: Pinpoint & Compass Point

Posted on August 23, 2011 by danielabdalhayymoore

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

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, fasting poems, galaxies, gratitude, heaven and earth, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love of God, POEMS, POETRY, Ramadan Fable, Ramadan Poetry, stars and the moon, The Prophet | 2 Comments

Poem: Ramadan Suns Itself

Posted on August 22, 2011 by danielabdalhayymoore

Ramadan suns itself by the dark of night and takes no notice of earthquake or flood Ramadan begins walking toward us from the furthest hilltop of the previous year and arrives at our door with baskets of golden fruit Although … Continue reading →

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Poem: Extend Your Shadow

Posted on August 20, 2011 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 will … Continue reading →

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