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About Hafiz (Daniel Ladinsky)

Timeline (1945? - )

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Original Language
English

Geronimo

Themes

Birds

Bliss

Lover and Beloved

Silence

Sound

Recommended Books

	The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, by Daniel Ladinsky
	I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz, by Daniel Ladinsky
	Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
	The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz, by Daniel Ladinsky

You might hear the beautiful shout of "Geronimo"
from a lover who has just dove from a
cliff and is heading full speed
into the Ocean -- into the
Beloved.

And of course there will always be lots of gab
along the shore from those who are
drawn to God

but have yet to really get bare assed
and go in.

"Geronimo" may be the last word we hear
from that brave gal falling 625 MPH
from a cliff,

for once beneath the sea,
once within the
Water,

only fish open their mouths, still bargaining
for something.

The soul becomes quiet in ecstasy, so quiet.
Love speaks in absence of God,
not in the heights
of passion.

-- from Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

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About Hafiz (Daniel Ladinsky)

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