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Reverence

by Hafiz (Daniel Ladinsky)
(1945? - ) Timeline

Original Language
English
Muslim / Sufi
Contemporary

Because
There is nothing
Outside of my Master's body

I try
To show reverence
To all things.

Because
There is nothing
Inside of my Master's body

I am saved
From all reason
And surrender understanding.

No wonder, Hafiz,
It has been
Unusual

For a smile to forsake
You!

 

 

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

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Themes

  Smile
 
 
 
 


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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

 

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