The Ecstatic Poems of HAFIZ

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>From the poems of Hafiz one can make out that he was in full mystical

union with God. His poems are ecstatic utterances of his non-dual state.

Hafiz does not give you directions as to how you too can achieve this

enlightenment. However, like Rumi's poems, his poems stir your heart in

such a way that your heart becomes more receptive. If you have been lucky

enough to have had a glimpse of Reality than his poems are even more

meaningful.

 

Hafiz

 

 

Would you think it odd if Hafiz said,

 

"I am in love with every church

And mosque

And temple

And any kind of shrine

 

Because I know it is there

That people say the different names

Of the One God."

 

Would you tell your friends

I was a bit strange if I admitted

 

I am indeed in love with every mind

And heart and body.

 

O I am sincerely

Plumb crazy

About your every thought and yearning

And limb

 

Because, my dear,

I know

That it is through these

 

That you search for Him

 

'I heard God Laughing - Renderings of Hafiz' by Daniel Ladinsky

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WHO WROTE ALL THE MUSIC

 

Why is it now

That I come to you like a humble servant

Willing to feed you brilliant words and love

From my own sacred mouth and hands,

 

Willing to say, "I am sorry,

I am sorry for all your pain"?

 

It is because when God

Fully revealed Himself in me

 

I saw that it was Hafiz

Who wrote all the music you have been playing.

 

I saw it was Hafiz

Who wrote all your notes of sadness,

But also etched and gave you

Every ecstatic wince of joy your face, body,

And heart has ever known.

 

Okay my dear,

You have stumbled enough in the earth's sweet dance,

You have paid all your dues

Many times.

 

Now let's get down to the real reason

Why we sit together and breathe

 

And begin the laughing, the divine laughing,

Like great heroic women

And magnificent

Strong men.

 

("The Gift" - versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)

 

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LOVE IS THE FUNERAL PYRE

 

Love is

The funeral pyre

Where I have laid my living body.

 

All the false notions of myself

That once caused fear, pain,

 

Have turned to ash

As I neared God.

 

What has risen

From the tangled web of thought and sinew

 

Now shines with jubilation

Through the eyes of angels

 

And screams from the guts of

Infinite existence

Itself.

 

Love is the funeral pyre

Where the heart must lay

Its body.

 

("The Gift" - versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)

 

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LAUGHING AT THE WORD TWO

 

Only

 

That Illumined

One

 

Who keeps

Seducing the formless into form

 

Has the charm to win my

Heart.

 

Only a Perfect One

 

Who is always

Laughing at the word

Two

 

Can make you know

 

Of

 

Love.

 

("The Gift" - versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)

 

 

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With Love,

Cyber Dervish

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