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Muslim / Sufi
Contemporary

 

About Daniel Ladinsky

Timeline (1945? - )

 

 

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Original Language
English
A Crystal Rim

Themes
  Birds
  Heart
  Light
  Lover and Beloved
  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

The
Earth
Lifts its glass to the sun
And light -- light
Is poured.

A bird
Comes and sits on a crystal rim
And from my forest cave I
Hear singing.

So I run to the edge of existence
And join my soul in love.

I lift my heart to God
And grace is poured.

An emerald bird rises from inside me
And now sits
Upon the Beloved's
Glass.

I have left that dark cave forever.
My body has blended with His.

I lay my wing
As a bridge to you

So that you can join us
Singing.

 

 

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

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