Author Archives: danielabdalhayymoore

About danielabdalhayymoore

Poet, artist, collagist, publisher, hoping to save a little bit of the world through ecstatic utterance... ordered in balanced lines and unpremeditated images...

HE COMES RUNNING

Posted on March 11, 2014

(Note: A new chapbook of poems written in Turkey recently, in pocket size format, during sohbets (talks) given by a saintly teacher, my zone listening to the Turkish producing these amiable meditations. Calligraphies punctuate the poems, by great Chinese calligrapher, … Continue reading →

Posted in ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, Sufi Poetry | 1 Comment

LITTLE BLACK FLY ON THE WALL

Posted on February 2, 2014

The little black fly on the wall doesn’t stop to think what he knows, those multiple eyes are enough. God’s sight through them shows him the world. Birds don’t think, “Fly or soar as I       might, I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, amazement, ETERNITY, Light, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry, The Path, The Soul | 2 Comments

Mawlid in New Brunswick, NJ, this past Friday, alhamdulillah…

Posted on January 20, 2014

Salaama Here’s a video snippet of the singing during the New Brunswick Mawlid I participated in. I’m the left hand corner squinting at the text… the singing was so reminiscent of mawlids in Morocco due to the fine leadership of … Continue reading →

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By Our Smallness We Know Your Vastness

Posted on January 14, 2014

  O Prophet of Allah, by our smallness we know your vastness, by our electron microscopes we know in this world how very little of the whole world we can know — what shape we are in, what velocity through … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, ISLAM/SUFISM, Mawlid Poem, Miracles, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, Praise of Prophet, Prophet Muhammad, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry, The Prophet | 1 Comment

Winter Scene

Posted on January 7, 2014

(Note: Though this poem was written in 2001, amazingly it turns out to have been written the same date as tonight, January 7, during one of the coldest Polar Vortex chill blasts I’ve experienced, and certainly the coldest in many … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, snow, Sufi Poetry, winter | Leave a comment

FROM A PARTICULAR HEIGHT

Posted on January 1, 2014

From a particular heighta stone bird is sought From another altitudesilk rain’s beseeched From yet another more daringGod’s outline in the dark His perspective from a peakover all the world The heart like a pinnaclescaled in a blink blind the … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love, Love of God, Muslim Poetry, New Years Poem, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, Silence, Sufi Poetry, The Soul | Leave a comment

Sphere of Light

Posted on December 27, 2013

Waiting fifteen minutes to Fajr Prayerjust this side of the end of the worldkaleidoscoping inward toward us all escalators and fiery stairwaysplummeting through purple smoke totally overpopulated each step withpeople fleeing what’s all around and inside usexcept for occasional beings … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Muslim Poetry, Muslim Prayer, POEMS, POETRY, saints, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry, The Soul | Leave a comment

Where the Greatest Wisdom Is

Posted on December 18, 2013

  Where the greatest wisdom isis a pewter dish in a room filled with light at the base of a chasm of basaltand the sun tilted on top like a purple feather in flames How do you get thereexcept on … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, ETERNITY, fana fillah, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love of God, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, Silence, Sufi Poetry, The Essence | Leave a comment

BLIZZARD BACCHANAL

Posted on December 12, 2013

As if the earth were to go on and on forever    another four inch layer of snow silently covers       time and space out the windowstretching all the way to the ocean, icy white powder piled up … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, Light, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, snow, Sufi Poetry, winter | 2 Comments

ETERNITY

Posted on November 16, 2013

ETERNITY                                                       Eternity is in love with the productions of time                                     — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1 Sad alabasters and perkypeacock feathers turn to rust in our hands Wave our hands across their smearedfaces … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, amazement, ETERNITY, fana fillah, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love, Miracles, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, SOUND, Sufi Poetry | 5 Comments

Miracle of Sound at the Ka’ba

Posted on October 16, 2013

What sounds are heard around God’s House? First, utter silence, silence within silence. Then its echo, more silent still. A silence that sits deep under the Throne of God – all other silence surrounds it and slowly turns. Every other … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Eid Greetings, ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, amazement, Hajj, ISLAM/SUFISM, Kaaba, Light, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, Silence, SOUND, Sufi Poetry, The Path, The Soul | 1 Comment

HURIYYAH exhibit by Soraya Syed Sanders in the UK

Please take a moment to view photos of Soraya Syed Sander’s exhibit now up in London at Leighton House… our daughter-in-law, married to Inspiraldesign’s Mukhtar Sanders… Well, they’re both Inspiraldesigners… Her exhibit and the dancer are tremendous… https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=526563080759968&set=a.526563054093304.1073741828.381604928589118&type=1&theater

Aside | Posted on October 9, 2013 | Tagged | 1 Comment

UK VISIT AND POEM

Posted on September 7, 2013

THE UK VISIT includes, besides the two presentations in Norwich (Friday the 13th at 7PM and Saturday the 14th at 3:30PM), a poetry evening at Rumi’s Cave, Kilburn, London, on Saturday, 21 September, at 7PM, under the auspices of gracious … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, fana fillah, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love of God, Muslim Poetry, Muslim Prayer, POEMS, POETRY, Prayer, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry | Leave a comment

You’ll Sing a Song

Posted on August 24, 2013

  You’ll sing a song from somewhere out of your depthsand light will hit it and it’ll bea diamond brooch worn at the back ofLayla’s head in a sunny glade it’ll be a drop of water hanging at thetip of … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, amazement, Diamond, fana fillah, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love, Love of God, Music of the Spheres, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, saints, song, SOUND, Sufi Poetry, The Soul | 2 Comments

TYGER TYGER / BLAKE / MOORE

Posted on August 23, 2013

    THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience) By William Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire … Continue reading →

Posted in Blake's Tyger, Life of Pi, POEMS, POETRY, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry, Tigers, William Blake recitation | Leave a comment

Sandwich at Noon

A sandwich at noon is enough tofrighten a field of crows  A telephone ringing in an empty room isanswered by the wind A road leading upward has abicycle on it and two trees When the blessings were brought inthe sun … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on August 9, 2013 | 2 Comments

Elusive Crescent

Posted on August 8, 2013

Ah coy crescent hiding in a blush of skyso many want to see you and hold you to our heartseach in our own perimeters however spread across the earth all searchingfor your quick eyeblink that promises untold bounteous rewards for … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, crescent moon, End of Ramadan, fasting, fasting poems, ISLAM/SUFISM, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, Ramadan Poetry, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry | Leave a comment

At the Pivot End of a Life

Posted on August 7, 2013

At the pivot end of a life(between this world and the next) all the sleek black horses lined up forinspection all the torn and tattered love letters tied in theirappropriate bundles and the words we’ve left in the air likewashing … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, Death, fana fillah, fasting, fasting poems, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love of God, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, Ramadan Poetry, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry | 1 Comment

Irene

Posted on August 6, 2013

(Note: I attribute the title and theme of this poem, based on the word “Irene” to Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. While we were working on a translation, The Burdah, or The Prayer of the Oppressed, he wanted to use the adjective … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, fasting, Hurrican Irene, ISLAM/SUFISM, Love of God, Muslim Poetry, Night of Power, POEMS, POETRY, Prayer for Safety, Ramadan Poetry, signs of allah, Sufi Poetry | Leave a comment

Nighttime Sessions of Light/The Repetitions of Saints

NIGHTTIME SESSIONS OF LIGHT Intense nighttime sessions of Lightspangle the planetary air and the lunar crescendo yup I said the lunar crescendo as wehead toward Ramadan’s exit back into temptation’s roundelay yup I said temptation’s roundelay that seems to go … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on August 5, 2013 | 1 Comment