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Muslim / Sufi
Contemporary

 

About Daniel Ladinsky

Timeline (1945? - )

 

 

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Original Language
English
Love is the Funeral Pyre

Themes
  Death
  Fire
  Heart
  Light
  Lover and Beloved

 

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

Love is
The funeral pyre
Where I have laid my living body.

All the false notions of myself
That once caused fear, pain,

Have turned to ash
As I neared God.

What has risen
From the tangled web of thought and sinew

Now shines with jubilation
Through the eyes of angels

And screams from the guts of
Infinite existence
Itself.

Love is the funeral pyre
Where the heart must lay
Its body.

 

 

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

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