"The importance of the moment is most important in the moment." - Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri
It's still [[here]],
a glossy [[sea]] like glass
which has gathered cloud
into crowns on both sides
of our [[blue]] horizon
as if it were all folded
down the middle,
the mirror image caught
by calm [[water]]
as I sit and listen
to you talk about time
and how to transcend it
by being held fast
to the tale of the Prophet,
[[peace]] be upon him,
who [[read]] his [[heart]]
and herded this [[story]]
between bridge and barrier
and broke my mind
by simply showing
how the greatest of all
are forever in sajda,
singing Your glory.
It's deep autumn [[now]] , but the butterflies are still [[here]] : evergreen [[white]] and orange oracles of calm air, their wings lit…
What the world smells like right [[now]] will never [[be]] said, and my [[heart]] sings with this one certainty. Sunset's ring has…
I remember playing hide-and-go-seek so vividly I can still touch the wall we were crouched behind, the two-tone bare-brick [[white…
I press the pattern to my nose, threadbare and walked over by generations of my people, their footprints still [[here]] beneath the [[blue…
A oboe climbs the moving stairs carved by orange [[moon]] [[light]] and the balanced scales of orb and mighty ocean. Quite what this…
[[Burn]] ing day: set a [[light]] by how we danced last [[night]] , feeling you right [[here]] , held against me while we moved as one…
Morning and [[time]] again to sing as earth sinks into [[light]] and the dawn chorus. It's grey and cold, but today the birds are truly…
No-one ever made it to the top to see the worlds entirely, except for you, old soul, who saw the joke of non-existence and didn't delay when…
Walk through the [[light]] tunnel which is the whole extended history of space [[time]] , a literal looking back into the distant past…
The Blue Book includes an explanation of why "traces" matter in literary terms, citing Jacques Derrida and his seminal essay, "Signature…
Two nights ago in a dream, you held my face so tenderly I felt everything else in the world fall apart except this embrace, lathered in the…
Today talked of victory for the new Nasruddin as a [[song]] reached fever pitch spreading [[light]] from the speakers, like it did last…
"The colour of Allah is upon us! And what better dye than that of Allah. It is Him we worship." 2:138 "The colour of my [[love]] is deep…
Two trees guard either end of the path: massive milkwoods who greet me every morning on my way [[through]] the forest, singing salaam…
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