Falling
If a body starts to fall and there’s nothing to stop it falling how long will it fall and through how many worlds? The…
The Prophet Muhammad (salallahu alayhi wa sallam)
Last Things / Sufi Symposium 2012
1 The last rhinoceros might look around and wonder where its beautiful beady-eyed brothers and sisters went The last waterfall…
Knot of Gold
KNOT OF GOLD The Prophet took people of abject poverty and strewed rubies at their feet There was no glass in the Prophet’s wi…
The World Went Away
1 The world went away on a hunting trip and left us alone in the long and short corridors and sudden staircases ascending heav…
Ramadan Suns Itself
Ramadan suns itself by the dark of night and takes no notice of earthquake or flood Ramadan begins walking toward us from the …
His Pure Presence
A goat eats grass off the Beloved’s hill and gives white milk to the Beloved’s Messenger O body of seemingly little worth disc…
His Reality in All Things
(Note: Sincere and true love of the Prophet, peace of Allah be upon him, and prayers upon him, cures our ills… and saves the…
When the Prophet Came In
(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) We were sometimes noble sometimes venal sometimes generous sometimes murderous When…
Light of the Shadowless One
(Note: This is a poem for the Mawlid, honoring the Prophet Muhammad’s birth. In devotional poetry the honorific, “peace of All…
Knot of Gold / Road to Konya / In Rumi’s Tomb (Sufi Symposium 2012)
The Prophet took people of abject p…
A Quandary of Gorgeous Song
The Prophet Muhammad’s arrived again with an entourage of saints Birds are flying in such a way the sky is streaked with gold …
Our Children
The children that we have become the teachers that will break us into bits Our staunch confrontations with the world pulverize…