Poems

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 is a pewter dish in a room filled with light at the base of a chasm of basalt and…

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 is in love with the productions of time — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven a…

What sounds are heard around God’s House? First, utter silence, silence within silence. Then its echo, more silent still. A si…

THE UK VISIT included, besides the two presentations in Norwich (Friday the 13th at …

[wpvideo L81wsyCP] THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience) By William Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the ni…

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 (between this world and the next) all the sleek black horses lined up for inspection all the…

(Note: I attribute the title and theme of this poem, based on the word “Irene” to Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. While we were working on…

for Baji (who heard the geese overhead calling out: Allah! Allah!) Intense nighttime sessions of Light spangle the planetary a…

Ramadan is a gorgeous chorus repeated in a mist above glades of green wheat bending in blue light Ramadan meets itself coming …