What Do sad people have in Common? It seems They have all built a shrine To the past And often go there And do a strange wail and Worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being So religious… Like That. – Hafiz The mosque of this affluent neighborhood is crowded. My [...]

Would you think it odd if Hafiz said, “I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.” ? Would you tell your friends I was a bit strange if I admitted I [...]

“There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. No more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything… no music. If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire. – Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 – 1273)

poetry is prayer light dancing inside words five times a day I try to write step by step I move towards the mihrab I prepare to recite what is in my heart I recite your name – E. Ethelbert Miller

I am looking for the poem that says everything… …so I don’t have to write any more – Tukaram

A Poem For West Ammani Twenty-Something-Year-Olds….Lately You…Yes you! Stop fucking asking me if I’m going to the Sean Paul or Tiesto concerts. (As if the city is abiding by an unwritten obligation that everyone must endure electronic and Jamaican reggae for an entire night just because a big name has come to town) I don’t [...]

I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega rich person for who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and horde what can nourish a thousand souls – Kabir

come to us come to us in the cover of darkness in cloaks and daggers wrap your arms around us sink the silver into our spines so mesmerizing so civilizing render on to us your bliss