Have you met Hafiz?

by moonkiss 1 Replies latest jw friends

  • moonkiss
    moonkiss

    "A wine bottle fell from a wagon
    And broke open in a field.

    That night hundred beetles and all their cousins
    Gathered

    And did some serious binge drinking.

    They even found some seed husks nearby
    And began to play them like drums and whirl.
    This made God very happy.

    Then the 'night candle' rose into the sky
    And one drunk creature, laying down his instrument
    Said to his friend - for no apparent
    Reason,

    "What should we do about that moon?"

    Seems to Hafiz
    Most everyone has laid aside the music

    Tackling such profoundly useless
    Questions. " --Hafiz

    From: 'The Gift' translated by Daniel Ladinsky

  • moonkiss
    moonkiss

    How 'bout this one:

    That sounds wonderful...

    Good poetry
    Makes a beautiful naked woman
    Materialize from
    Words,

    Who then says,
    With a sword precariously waving
    In her hands,

    "If you look at my loins
    I will cut off your head,

    And reach down and grab your spirit
    By its private parts,

    And carry you off to heaven
    Squealing in joy."

    Hafiz says,
    "That sounds wonderful, just
    Wonderful.

    Someone please - start writing
    Some great
    Lines."

    'The subject tonight is love' - versions by Daniel Ladinsky

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