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Muslim / Sufi
Contemporary

 

About Daniel Ladinsky

Timeline (1945? - )

 

 

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Original Language
English
Everywhere

Themes
  Bliss
  Fire
  Smile
  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

Running
Through the streets
Screaming,

Throwing rocks through windows,
Using my own head to ring
Great bells,

Pulling out my hair,
Tearing off my clothes,

Tying everything I own
To a stick,
And setting it on
Fire.

What else can Hafiz do tonight
To celebrate the madness,
The joy,

Of seeing God
Everywhere!

 

 

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

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