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...

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 | 3 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 | 1 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 | 1 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

Two Poems: If We Woke Up One Morning / Blue Circles

Posted on August 4, 2013

  IF WE WOKE UP ONE MORNING If we woke up one morning to findwe didn’t exist would the fast be abrogated? Or be more completely fulfilled? If we were avague fractal outline among mountain crags or mounded clouds or … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, circus, fasting, fasting poems, heaven and earth, ISLAM/SUFISM, Light, Love of God, Miracles, Music of the Spheres, Muslim Poetry, Night of Power, POEMS, POETRY, Ramadan Fable, Ramadan Poetry, signs of allah, Space, Sufi Poetry | Leave a comment

Ramadan is a Gorgeous Chorus

Posted on August 3, 2013

Ramadan is a gorgeous chorusrepeated in a mist above glades of green wheat bending in blue light Ramadan meets itself coming in fromthe rain with its face slick and shining and sits at our table as it vanishes with all … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, amazement, fasting, fasting poems, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, Ramadan Poetry, Sufi Poetry | 2 Comments

Heart & Soul

Posted on August 2, 2013

  HEART & SOUL If all my poems seem to end up in the same place it’s because I also want to end up theregrateful to God and showered by the bliss of His Face Starting from a shadow say … Continue reading →

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

Fast

Posted on August 1, 2013

Puppets can’t break their fast through their painted mouths Rocks can be said to be fasting forever Mountain “fastnesses” are a kind of stronghold or fortress Colors are fast that never cut and run The Ramadan fast goes by day … Continue reading →

Posted in ABDAL-HAYY'S POETRY, fasting, ISLAM/SUFISM, Muslim Poetry, POEMS, POETRY, Ramadan Poetry, Sufi Poetry | Leave a comment

Pinpoint and Compass Point

A pinpoint and a compass pointa bismin and a galaxy What do they have in common? A cloud in the sky and a thought passingthrough our heads with maybe even more wind behind it A single wave in the sea … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on July 31, 2013 | 1 Comment

Ramadan Suns Itself

Posted on July 30, 2013

Ramadan suns itself by the dark of nightand takes no notice of earthquake or flood Ramadan begins walking toward us from thefurthest hilltop of the previous year and arrives at our door withbaskets of golden fruit Although Ramadan seems most … Continue reading →

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With a Two-legged Goat and a Flying Fish

Who I’ve become after all myadventures on land is a seventy-one year-old man whofasts from dawn to sundown sailing off across the daywith a two-legged goat and a flying fish searching for thesource of all this daylight avoiding the usual … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on July 29, 2013 | 3 Comments

Extend Your Shadow

If you haven’t been parted fromwhat you truly love then foot cannot follow footnor heart follow heart Beasts born in the wild have thewild to bring them to their higher education How can we see what will wire us to … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on July 28, 2013 | Leave a comment

The Spider’s Break-Fast

The small brown spider in my bathroom(honored guest whose protection is assured)after more than two weeks of patient waiting finally got a large tasty black fly-likebug this morning in her helter-skelter-looking web (to me at least) linked to a retracting … Continue reading →

Aside | Posted on July 27, 2013 | Leave a comment