Hafiz (Daniel Ladinsky): Then Winks

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Then Winks

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

Original Language
English

Muslim / Sufi

Contemporary

Everything is clapping today.

Light,
Sound,
Motion,
All movement.

A rabbit I pass pulls a cymbal
From a hidden pocket
Then winks.

This causes a few planets and I
To go nuts
And start grabbing each other.

Someone sees this,
Calls a
Shrink,

Tries to get me
Committed
For
Being too
Happy.

Listen: this world is the lunatic's sphere,
Don't always agree it's real,

Even with my feet upon it
And the postman knowing my door

My address is somewhere else.

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

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Themes

Light

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

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