Winter Scene
(Note: Though this poem was written in 2001, amazingly it turns out to have been written the same date as tonight, January 7, …
Poems
From a Particular Height
From a particular height a stone bird is sought From another altitude silk rain’s beseeched From yet another more daring God’s…
Sphere of Light
Waiting fifteen minutes to Fajr Prayer just this side of the end of the world kaleidoscoping inward toward us all escalators a…
Where the Greatest Wisdom Is
Where the greatest wisdom is is a pewter dish in a room filled with light at the base of a chasm of basalt and…
Blizzard Bacchanal
As if the earth were to go on and on forever another four inch layer of snow silently covers time and space out the…
Eternity
Eternity is in love with the productions of time — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven a…
Miracle of Sound at the Ka’ba
What sounds are heard around God’s House? First, utter silence, silence within silence. Then its echo, more silent still. A si…
From the Soft Rope We Are / UK visit 2007
THE UK VISIT included, besides the two presentations in Norwich (Friday the 13th at …
Tyger Tyger / Blake-Moore
[wpvideo L81wsyCP] THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience) By William Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the ni…
Sandwich at Noon
A sandwich at noon is enough to frighten a field of crows A telephone ringing in an empty room is answered by the wind…
At the Pivot End of a Life
At the pivot end of a life (between this world and the next) all the sleek black horses lined up for inspection all the…
Irene
(Note: I attribute the title and theme of this poem, based on the word “Irene” to Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. While we were working on…