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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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Thirst

There is melody within a noisy river that only a thirsting man knows. Only those whose fore-arms are scarred by thorns have felt the pleats of the fragrant rose. Dry parchment seeks the stream of the ink like a cube … Continue reading

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Woken by Absence

When drunk with wine, upon soft pillows of golden thread, I, in darkness, slept, whilst sultans’ dreams filled my head, I am woken by Your absence, that of a restless lover in my bed. So, we lie awake, You and … Continue reading

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This Sobhet Came and Went

And some time came and went in a Tavern that never closes As we donned our cloaks and left, ‘twas another tranquil sunset among the many millions issued, another expression of white light  in as many radiant hues. We have … Continue reading

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“Beauty Seeks a Mirror”

I was dazed by the colors of dusk, astounded by its clarity, immediately inebriated by light, spellbound by saturated hues, clouds aflame in saffron, tiger and tangerine, brushes of amaranth, lost in Egyptian blue. Others stopped to stare at the … Continue reading

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Everything Became You

My heart is a winding painted canyon carved by my Beloved. I followed her echo out to the ocean And below Her surface I dove. I emptied myself into Her depths, beneath the currents of unspoken worlds and breathless I … Continue reading

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A Rose in Life’s Grotto

Loving with an empty heart, we hear Her exhale, grotto’s dark, wrapping breath around the rose, in bending light, our spirits arc. A cavern entrance framed in thorns for spacious shelter from the storm, where some upon the threshold waver … Continue reading

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Hu

Who am i? Am I the “who” of whom I ask, “Who am I?” Or the “I” who asks? That I wonder at all, tells me that there must be another me who is not an “I.” The answer of … Continue reading

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Tea to Boil

I’m putting the tea to boil… finding a spot on the earth in which to sink, a heart string to play, my mind to think and untangle a knot of toil I’m putting the tea to boil Something warm to … Continue reading

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