Signs of Allah
When the tide of the day pulls out and leaves the night standing on the shore swallowing the stars and the moon is nearly…
Poems
Ramadan is Burnished Sunlight
Ramadan is burnished sunlight on the cheek of the Beloved at the first dawn of creation first fruits burst on first green bran…
The Things of This World
The things of this world have gone a remove while fasting as if through a kind of glazed window just out of reach which…
A Fiery Glow in the Heart
Taste the nothing that isn’t and the nothingness that is How many giraffes could gallop through those words with their incredi…
A Flourish of Time
A flourish of time and a life is complete with its circles and straight lines somehow converging at a vanishing point attended…
Black Cow
At our night of dhikr last night our shaykh asked us what Ramadan is to each one of us personally and insisted that we…
Leave the World Alone
Sumptuous Juggler God Coy Beloved Elusive Letter-writer from a distant land beyond moonbeams and tides though You send them to…
Adam Stood in the World
Adam stood in the world as tall as the trees the sun bathing his body birds wreathing his outline with birdsong waters everywh…
Returning from a Marvelous Journey
I’ve got a window up my sleeve and a door in my shirt I can open any time to walk out into the blue.…
Establishing Enthusiasm
[NOTE: This is a poem from the great late Mexican poet (1935-2009) Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, whom I met and learned so much…
Nahnu Fee Rawdati & Poem: Shy Hemlocks Brash Niagaras
The song, Nahnu fee Rawdati, from the Diwan of Shaykh ibn al-Habib, raheemahullah, s…
Tell All the Truth (Dickinson) / Heart to Heart in Death’s Rumble
(An Ars Poetica, from a great pract…