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Poems

• 23

• APHORISMS TO DEATH

• Poem in the First Person

• I Enter the Chapel of my Forehead

• Take One Step Forward

• Some Softly Falling Rain

• Anti-ISIS: On the Muslim Imposters

• In Every Breath

• An Animal That Contains

• Arafat

• Aurora Borealis

• They Try to Approach

• The Delirious Archer

• You’ll Sing a Song

• Ar-Rahman

• Not a Moment Can Be Lost

• At Some Point

• An Orange Sunset Sits on a Blue Horizon

• As We Enter the 3rd Millennium

• White Eagle in a Pit

• Some Leaves Fall

• My God, Little Flakes

• Orpheus Wore That Look

• A Little Mouse in a Hole

• Flower Shapes

• Piece of Coal

• Bars of Martian Light

• What Are Feet For?

• Until the Very Last Breath

• Some First Light

• Who Taught Who What

• On the Road to Konya

• Light

• Saintly Places

• World Split Apart

• All the Dead Children

• First Night of Ramadan

• Splendid Excitement of the Coming Day

• Four Corners of the Universe

• The Path

• Ala-Udeen & The Magic Lamp

• The Crown of Creation

• Of My Mother, 92, With Alzheimers

• He Comes Running (3 poems)

• Little Black Fly on the Wall

• By Our Smallness We Know Your Vastness

• Winter Scene

• From a Particular Height

• Sphere of Light

• Where the Greatest Wisdom Is

• Blizzard Bacchanal

• Eternity

• Miracle of Sound at the Ka’ba

• From the Soft Rope We Are / UK visit 2007

• Tyger Tyger / Blake-Moore

• Sandwich at Noon

• At the Pivot End of a Life

• Irene

• Nighttime Sessions of Light

• Ramadan is a Gorgeous Chorus

• Heart & Soul

• Fast

• Pinpoint and Compass Point

• Ramadan Suns Itself

• With a Two-legged Goat and a Flying Fish

• Extend Your Shadow

• The Spider’s Break-Fast

• The Capitulaton of King Stomach

• Halfway Through the Fast

• Hand of Light

• Signs of Allah

• Ramadan is Burnished Sunlight

• The Things of This World

• A Fiery Glow in the Heart

• A Flourish of Time

• Black Cow

• Leave the World Alone

• Adam Stood in the World

• Returning from a Marvelous Journey

• Establishing Enthusiasm

• Nahnu Fee Rawdati & Poem: Shy Hemlocks Brash Niagaras

• Tell All the Truth (Dickinson) / Heart to Heart in Death’s Rumble

• When I Pray

• The White Deer

• Talk

• The Perfect Moon-Faced One

• Robinson Crusoe Dips His Foot

• Souls

• Five Short Meditations on the Virgin Mary

• These Faces of Ours

• I’m in Love with a Panther / Life of Pi note

• Compassionate Zone

• His Most Precious Concern

• What Fire Prevented

• All Our Attempts at Healing

• With the Saint at the Window / A wali’s passing

• Cancer

• Soul Questions

• The Soul

• The Rowers

• A Little Blue Monk

• Falling

• Job Sits in His Chair

• Poem Ending with Lines by Yeats

• I Hear Nearby

• Science Fact Science Fiction

• The Lion’s Arena

• If I Should Die Tonight

• Venetian Magicians / Prayer

• Sweat and Boils

• All Moving Forward in Time

• Seeing the Scaffold

• Short Fable of the Three Schooners

• Good Cheer Among the Cynics

• Angelic Shoes

• God of the Sliver

• Of Course the Essence of it All

• Took a Deep Breath

• How Can We Not Admire

• Last Things / Sufi Symposium 2012

• Knot of Gold

• And of the Little That We Do

• No Second Face

• As If a Windsock

• The Magnitude

• Siren at Night

• Because

• Enter Me Into the Great Adventure

• The World Went Away

• The Saint’s Achievement

• 9/11 A Little Ramshackle Shack Parts 1-4

• Elusive Crescent

• At the Pivot End of a Life

• 25th day of Ramadan Poems: If We Woke Up One Morning / Blue Circles

• Ramadan is a Gorgeous Chorus

• Fast

• Ramadan Suns Itself

• With a Two-Legged Goat & a Flying Fish

• A Spider’s Break-Fast

• The Capitulation of King Stomach

• Halfway Through the Fast

• Hand of Light

• Ramadan Goes Looking

• Signs of Allah

• Ramadan’s Flame Hoops

• His Pure Presence

• Ramadan is Burnished Sunlight

• The Things of This World

• A Fiery Glow in the Heart

• Drunk in Allah

• Lyre

• So Little Effort

• The Bullet

• The Present Tense

• Soap Bubble

• Picture of the Garden

• Name of God

• Ladder Leaned up Against the House

• Hitting Bulls Eye

• One Quick Cold Night

• Not a Moment

• ‘Eid Poems: Ramadan Is Over…

• Ramadan Sonnet: What Sweetness it is

• 2 Poems from Ramadan Sonnets

• His Reality in All Things

• God’s Hum

• The Fact of the Matter

• Whitman

• Invention of the Camel

• The Good Ship Rachel Corrie

• Peacefully Sleeping Reapers

• Approach the Rim of a Volcano

• Childhood of the Saint

• When the Prophet Came In

• I’m the One

• Inklings and Glimpses

• Lord Wear Me Out

• In a World With No Time for Poetry

• Prayer at the Ka’ba

• The Morning of the Last Day

• The Wild Stars

• New Moon

• 2 from Ramadan Sonnets (25th Ramadan)

• Midnight Ping-Pong Match

• 2 Poems from Ramadan Sonnets

• Fifteenth Night of Shabaan

• Great Boat

• Timetable 1/ The Few with Elegant Manners

• They Came Down from the High and Low Places

• The Lover the Beloved

• Pray Afghanistan / Videoku #2

• Videoku #1

• Bird Song

• A Breath of Fresh Air

• I’m More Concerned

• Light of the Shadowless One

• Embedded in the Velvet is the Thorn

• Souls

• Still Eyeless in Gaza?

• Great Cruelty and Heartlessness

• Another ‘Eid More Feet

• ‘Eid / What Are Feet For?

• The Grand Fete

• Illusions

• Honoring Our Election of Obama

• Take Down the Universe

• Ramadan Sonnet: Final Sonnet

• People

• PARADISE GATE (for Mahmoud Darwish)

• Gulp

• A Little Door

• One More Word

• Apothecary Jars

• Knot of Gold / Road to Konya / In Rumi’s Tomb (Sufi Symposium 2012)

• The Name of the Rose

• If All the Wood in the World

• Singular Shadow

• Angelic Physics

• Chair

• Salmon

• The Only Real Life

• Song of Departures

• Four Gardens

• Silvery Radiant Song

• Mouse Feet

• Pewter Moonlight

• The Wine We Love

• The Drunken Soldier

• Lake on a Hill

• Ladders

• Glory in the Darkness

• A Quandary of Gorgeous Song

• The Eye & the Garden

• There’s No Comfort in This World

• In the Fullness of Time

• The Slope of the Mountain

• Three Angels in My Back Garden

• Love

• Video The Radiance of Day

• Tiny Thread

• No Sleep

• A Stone Hits the Ground

• AUDIO POEM: A Stone Hits the Ground

• Chapter 1 (Abdallah Jones)

• Video: Abdallah Jones Chapter 1 read by the author

• Noah’s Music

• Text: Everyone’s Given Their Own Set of Eyes

• Video Everyone’s Given Their Own Set of Eyes

• MP3: The Cloak of the Saint

• The Cloak of the Saint

• Out of a Drip a Whole World

• O SHARP WIND

• If We Felt the Earth Move Under Us

• Video: 2 poems from The Music Space

• 2 Poems from The Music Space

• Video Several Rainbows

• Several Rainbows

• The Barest Handhold

• The Sound of Earth’s Rotation

• Video Poem and Commentary: The Golden Dome of the Sacred Tomb

• The Golden Dome of the Sacred Tomb

• The Theater or Better Yet the Circus

• Our Children

• A Rock

• New Islamic Haiku & Commentary

• Would Joy Pervade Us?

• Here’s a Row of Innocuous Boxes

• Islamic Haiku and commentary

• What Resists Illusion

• Peace be Upon Him

• Haji Noor Deen reads 3 Classical Chinese poems / Abdal-Hayy reads the English

• The Puzzle

• Golden Bees

• Interlude

• Sparrow on the Prophet’s Tomb (peace be upon him)

• Commentary on DeenPort Haiku

• Poem for his Mawlid, peace be upon him

• in a lighter vein…?

• Clarifying Vision

• The Fact of the Matter

• New Clocks Set Ahead

• Ghazal: At Rumi’s Tomb

• from Becoming the Mountain / Poem

• Somewhere in the Remote Arctic

• Poem Before it is Written

• He Wanted to go on a Long Journey…

• Aesthetic

• New But it is We…

• On the Road to God / Ghazal

• Infinite Clarity

• Ghazal: Opalescent Soul

• A Visit with Mr. Blake

• God’s Sunlight

• Love’s Pebbles Thrown

• All of It

• The Saint Calls to Us

• A Thousand Armies

• Still thinking about Imran…

• As of a Giant Cloud

• Poem for Imran Saithna…

• In Memoriam Imran Saithna

• The Prophet Muhammad Arose One Morning

• Spring Poem in Winter

• Haiku for 1/19/07 on DeenPort…

• Poem from: Coattails of the Saint

• Haiku / A Rhinoceros is Running the War

• Poem from: In the Realm of Neither

• Ghazal (from The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light)

• Haiku on DeenPort 1/14/07

• The Ballad of the Tyrant

• Shouting God by Tiel Aisha Ansari

• Haiku… George & Osama

• New Haiku on DeenPort 1/11/07

• Today’s Islamic Haiku on DeenPort

• Ghazal on the Prophet, peace be upon him

• Oh Allah!

• War Poem in our Time of Madness

• Two New Poems 2007

• The Arrow

• MECCA MEDINA TIMEWARP / Prayer at the Ka’ba

• Mecca-Medina Timewarp / White Moth on the Ka’ba

• MECCA MEDINA TIMEWARP

• MIRACLE OF SOUND AT THE KA’BA

• Due Measure

• Looking and Seeing

• The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light

• Beginning the Prayer

Books

• HOLY DOOR IN THE GROUND

• Transitioning to Zero

• White Noise in This World Silver in the Next

• The Sound of Geese Over the House

• Ramadan is Burnished Sunlight

• Ramadan Sonnets

• The Throne Perpendicular to All that is Horizontal

• A Hundred Little 3D Pictures

• The Blind Beekeeper

• Facing Mecca

• Eternity Shimmers Time Holds its Breath

• The Soul’s Home

• Stories Too Fiery to Sing Too Watery to Whisper

• He Comes Running

• You Open a Door and It’s a Starry Night

• Where Death Goes

• Underwater Galaxies

• Some

• Through Rose Colored Glasses

• stretched Out on Amethysts

• Sparks off the Main Strike

• Sparrow on the Prophet’s Tomb

• Shaking the Quicksilver Pool

• Salt Prayers

• The Puzzle

• The Perfect Orchestra

• Next Life

• Miracle Songs for the Millennium

• The Music Space

• Millennial Prognostications

• Mars & Beyond

• Love is a Letter Burning in a High Wind

• Like When You Wave at a Train and the Train Hoots Back at You

• Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi

• Invention of the Wheel

• In the Realm of Neither

• In Constant Incandescence

• I Imagine a Lion

• Psalms for the Brokenhearted

• Holiday from the Perfect Crime

• The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light

• The Fire Eater’s Lunchbreak

• Ala-Uden & The Magic Lamp

• Down at the Deep End

• The Crown of Creation

• Cooked Oranges

• Coattails of the Saint

• Chants for the Beauty Feast

• The Caged Bear Spies the Angel

• Blood Songs

• A Maddening Disregard for the Passage of Time

• Abdallah Jones & The Disappearing Dust Caper

• The Sweet Enigma of it All / Poems

Art Pieces

• The Impressionist

• Walt Whitman

• Dylan Thomas

• The Happiness of the Intelligent Universe

• Some

• D. H. Lawrence

• The Conversations of Saints

• The Real Layla

• The Perfect Orchestra

• Halfway Through the Fast

• Grief’s Feast

• The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light

• Cooked Oranges

• Coattails of the Saint

• Blood Songs

• Coming Round the Corner

• Psalms for the Broken Hearted

• Buddha Face

• What Shall I Be? — Rumi

• A Dantean Vision

• Sage Portrait

• Down at the Deep End #9

• Arthur Rimbaud #3

• Blakean Notebook Painting

• Arthur Rimbaud #2

• Arthur Rimbaud #1

• Ezra Pound

• Oscar Wilde

• Staff of Life

• Malika’s Planets

• A Spirit Place

• A Classical Moment

• Marbug from Abdallah Jones

• Shaykh from Abdallah Jones

Theater Posts

• Gene Gonder and Blues for Scrooge 1958

• Floating Lotus from Ariel Parkinson’s Memoir

• The Walls are Running Blood

• Floating Lotus “Manifesto”

Blog Posts

• ISIS and Trumpism: Mirror images of Each other?

• Earthquake with a Friend of Allah

• The Repetitions of Saints

• Andalusian Calligraphy Film Project

• Rumi Conference at Rosales in Granada, Spain

• James Tate Passing & Poem

• Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib (raheemahullah / 1876?-1972)

• Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir As-Sufi al-Murabit (1930-)

• Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (raheemahullah / ?-1986)

• Zen Master Sensei Suzuki (raheemahullah / 1904-1971)

• A Word About Collages

• Choosing Islam: One Man’s Tale

• Extended Biographical Information

• Author’s Introduction to Laughing Buddha Weeping Sufi

• Q-News Interview / A Sweet Interrogation

• Review for Love is a Letter Burning in a High Wind

• Some Moths and Scattered Flames

• Mawlid in New Brunswick, NJ, this past Friday, alhamdulillah…

• Hurriyah / exhibit by Soraya Syed Sanders in the UK

• Introduction to When You Wave at a Train and the Train Hoots Back at You

• Poster Reading Point Reyes California March 2012

• Poetry Poster from the Sufi Symposium 2012

• 9/11 Mohawk Eagle Dance Memoir

• Ramadan Sliverlight

• Death of Ben Laden

• The Ecstatic Exchange: Words on my Life and Poetry

• Lailat al-Qadir

• Ramadan Sonnet: Town

• An amazing visual adventure…

• Walt Whiteman Poem

• Comments on the passing of our brother Imran