Category Archives: Poems Beyond Their Words

contains poetry inclined toward mysticism, gnosticism, Irfan, Tasawwuf, Sufism

Invisible as the Wind

This One is invisible as the wind Her signs wave sinuously Her effects are seen in the swaying limbs the robin’s roost balanced in the tabernacle The one clear note in the branches’ babel. She is the glint within the … Continue reading

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Going Home (Costa Rica Series)

I’m thinner now, I’ve no belt holes left, While there is food in abundance, my appetite is always for something else Many a poem is left buried on the beach, and each night as the tide ebbs, these unspoken words … Continue reading

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A Heart is Contraband

O’ masked heartsteal this hidden houri from the bold arms of dubiety. O’ heart, my captain,sail us swiftly through az-Zuqaqto the Tibouda promontory Let me hear her whisper“Espana” And save this ship from peril. Sweetly place her silhouette anywhere, be … Continue reading

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The Shaikh in the Well

The compassion of the Shaikh is the physician to our pain He is a cool mist on desert sand He is the rain upon on our skin Below which seeds of hope give sprout as his love seeps deep within. … Continue reading

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Mevlana’s Kitchen

People cannot keep their eyes off of a fire, they just have to gaze and reflect; because there is something in the fire too bright to discern and they simply must get closer. Moths fiercely sacrifice themselves for this wisdom … Continue reading

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Zeliha Sings

Zeliha sang to us tonight, I listened to what I heard, “I’m not interested in your ears But I’ll sing to your heart with scented words… …Your eyes are the sea but your heart is my harbor. This song is … Continue reading

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The Three Teachers

Sometimes I am drowning in answers 
thirsting for questions –  
for it is the pain of not knowing
 that I’ve befriended. This one speaks of separation, 
 that one of where union begins 
another speaks of two fountains that converge and … Continue reading

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Coming Home

My hands clasped in knotted prayer, I slipped away, beyond aware but you slipped a string around my finger and tugged it toward your hidden turbe. So I tugged back in this gentle play of cat and mouse, of Rumi … Continue reading

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Three Teachers

Sometimes I am drowning in answers thirsting for questions – for it is the pain of not knowing that I’ve befriended This one speaks of separation, that one of where union ends another speaks of two fountains that have crashed … Continue reading

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The Cloaked Lovers

Her eyes are knitting needles, my heart Her design, Her words are golden gossamer threads, sewn into a cloak, as clandestine invisible as a spider’s web, dusted with dew and tangled light we slip away like moon and stars as … Continue reading

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