Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib (raheemahullah / 1876?-1972)
It’s always a difficult thing to talk about enlightened saints. One must be a little…
Saints / Awliyya
Zen Master Sensei Suzuki (raheemahullah / 1904-1971)
Painter Norman Steigelmeyer came all the way from San Francisco to where I was livin…
The Repetitions of Saints
In the Name of Allah, The All Merciful, The All Compassionate The repetitions of saints flow through every leaf and glisten ha…
The Delirious Archer
This is the story of the delirious archer who could shoot in a state no one would say was sober yet he hit the…
Eternity Shimmers Time Holds its Breath
Eternity shimmers in the room among the bright solid furniture that is the furniture…
He Comes Running
These Poems written within the limits of 6X4 inch pocket-sized pieces of paper (one poem per piece) in Istanbul, Turkey, visit…
You Open a Door and It’s a Starry Night
What is this life to us if it’s not a continual wonder, whose elements of surprise s…
The Puzzle
A grand outgoing, heading directly into the puzzlement, the puzzle, puzzling it all out… Poems of search and devotion to the O…
Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi
“Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.”(William Blake) A cooly impassioned, and “pathward” adventurous series of poems…
In Constant Incandescence
Try to describe light and it’s hopeless Nothing can quite catch in words luminous nothingness Hold something up in light and i…
Psalms for the Brokenhearted
A collection of poems simultaneously plummeting down and somehow ascending, all the while embracing Whitmanic vistas in vision…
The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light
These poems in traditional ghazal form, the first half begun in Turkey, are a compan…