Five elements of the obvious
*
Lock yourself out
out of the cage of folly
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Shun the doctrines
of man-imposed ideality
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Such incentives
that will ravage your calm
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Never for vulgar wealth
but do open up for inner riches
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Hear hear, said the sage
as he devoured five easy pieces
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© 2021-05-22
Demystified twelve.
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Bail
hostage
indirect damage
whether innocent children
either harmless grandparents
or guiltless mothers and fathers
a language
for those that drop bombs
for those brave that fire guns
for those heroes that fire rockets
*
collateral damage
just a translation
or a synonym
for suffering
and pain
of hurt
*
© 2021-05-20
She lived like a butterfly
Yet
sadly
even
butterflies
grow
old
© 2021-05-15
At the end of the hot summer
they took lodge in the garden
and ate and ate to full their fill
when nearing winter they hid
in gaps 'tween door and post
at sunny hours they'ld come
out and bathe in the warmth
of the late beams of the sun
almost invisible against the
dusky red of the stable gate
awaiting winter and slumber
the hibernation to give vigor
or a sleep that lasts forever
seeing the world evolving I
just might follow their steps
awake in vim or just never..
© 2021-05-15
The twinkle in your eye
enchanted my
heart longer than a lifetime
mesmerized still
by your spring of love .
© 2021-05-18
A Natural Void
Can you create
in your nature
this emptiness
and make use
of that what is
© 2021-05-01
Demystified Eleven.
Would I follow in his footsteps of heart
sublime love greatest shayk ibn' Arabi
Travelling a path from Murcia through
a wasteland of deserts of all the seed
Finding that there is just only One
Yeshua One Muhammed One Truth
When Mansur bespoke His Universe
and blessed the extinction of my ego
Sand on Mediterranean dunes swirled
as my feet zealously followed that love
But the end would not come - no - not
in Damascus where the I transformed
As my I met this Guardian of Seekers
sending the soul yet even further east
Studying inner, inward and hidden
and so exoteric becoming esoteric
Touching the smiling face of a poet
shielded by a traditional household
Yet growth will happen for the sister
in the land of the sun she will teach
She will be unity and rid self-blame
tasawwuf as only a woman can do
She will be loved, she will be Truth,
smiling seriously, she'll reach Kashf
And as her spirit will join this 'son of Plato' in Fana
there, there my shaykhah you will I ask your favour
And lead the tribes in Yaqin, you greatest of Gnostics,
all Aql, that day of Judgment, to the plain of Assembly
© 2021-04-30
Meaning of....in this poem:
Aql - (dialectical) reasoning, intellect
Fana - (complete denial of self) to die before one dies
Kashf - (pure) insight
Yaqin - (revelatory) inner certainty
Mirrored enlightenment
