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About Hafiz (Daniel Ladinsky)

Timeline (1945? - )

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Original Language
English
The Hatcheck Girl

 
 
 
 
 

 

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

Why
Are there
So few in the court
Of a perfect
Saint?

Because
Every time you are near Him
You have to leave pieces
Of your
Ego

With
The hatcheck
Girl

Who won't give them
Back--

O
O
O
U
C
H
.

 

 

-- from The Gift: Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master, by Daniel Ladinsky

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