Chants for the Beauty Feast / Poems

Chants for the Beauty Feast / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578074826
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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Chants for the Beauty Feast are poems in celebration of our breathing, living, daring and imaginal beauty, in this world with all its aches and pangs, and the next and the Unseen world with its intersections into and throughout this one, divinely directed. Light everywhere moving with relentless bliss.

Blood Songs / Poems

Blood Songs / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578106787
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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.".".The look of love death has on its face and in its fathomless eyes as behind the burning irises legions upon legions of angels file up and down a spiraling staircase carrying love-notes and bringing back blessings and reprieves..."" I'm really not sure why this particular collection of my poems is called Blood Songs, the title it has had since beginning the first poem of the book written in October of 2000, and though, as with other titles of mine, not necessarily threading a theme throughout, yet the title stands notwithstanding... and so it stands.

The Sound of Geese Over the House / Poems

The Sound of Geese Over the House / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578163608
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The sound of geese over the house and in the house the prayer on the Prophet The sound of geese over the house and in the house Allah loves you The mountains are full of light and their gigantic shadows are eloquent since they're leaning against the sky and out into space with their crags and outcrops No sound can scale in a dimension commensurate with the pure expanse of it The sound of geese over the house puts a dome of life above us and a sea of life below us and a world of life all around us and a shaft of living Light inside us

The Caged Bear Spies the Angel / Poems

The Caged Bear Spies the Angel / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578085127
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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The luster of a glisten is/enough to elicit bliss//The gleam from a beam/enough to confound the intellect//The crack of a rock in a creek/can take us back to where//we lost track//The whiff of a sniff can lift/even the most morose heart//from the hotbed of heartbreak//All these phenomena/splinter and splatter in//this world to focus from the/unseen world onto this one//some hint of the high rainbowing/laughter to come...

Down at the Deep End / Poems & Drawings

Down at the Deep End / Poems & Drawings PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578113678
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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This may be a secret among only a few of its recipients, but cancer is a direct and positive gift from God. Its chemo and radiation therapies wrack and ruin us... and its alternative therapies may bewilder us with the arcane and often whacky character of their methods... I chose the traditional medical program of three chemo and thirty-five radiation sessions, begun immediately after diagnosis of my cancer, and I praise Allah for the doctors who treated me with their medicine chest of tough love. _________________ Redemption happens the way/ water falls/ Forgiveness is air/ let into an airless room/ Even at the top of the highest peak/ we can't just step off into the sky/ At some point only God's Love has any reality/ and everything hangs enraptured from that ferocious hook/ Streams of light continue to enter us from we/ know now where/ The truth of our beings/ light streaming everywhere

The Perfect Orchestra / Poems

The Perfect Orchestra / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578025698
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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I'm not sure why anyone would want to undergo spiritual training, the rigors and difficulties of a path of spiritual discipline, except to reach a state of enlightenment. And I'm not sure that the state of enlightenment would be one of grim survival, or a harsh stoicism after all the exhausting rigors, but rather a joyful and constant perception of the simultaneous multifariousness of all things, and the single Divine core around which we all endlessly circulate'¦ The Perfect Orchestra of the Real. This world's natural light is supernatural light, and even when shining on the discordant, radiates calm, back to the central chord, the tonally harmonic resolution that laps throughout the universe as well as through us, end to end, and back again.

Facing Mecca / Poems

Facing Mecca / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578146371
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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As Muslims who pray the five obligatory prayers each day of our lives, when able we orient ourselves toward Mecca, located in what is now Saudi Arabia, from wherever we happen to find ourselves, farflung in some island fastness, or out in desert dunes, or in a New York hotel room. There are boat people who tie up and face Mecca right in their boats, saintly Moroccan merchants who fling their carpets down just behind the counter where they sell embroidery thread to very particular customers (I am a witness). We can't get too "far out" when we stop to face Mecca five times and more a day, or in the solitude of our nights, knowing the plumb line goes straight through to the next world, and its rising to the holy heights.

The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light (Ninety-Nine Ghazals Written in English) / Poems

The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light (Ninety-Nine Ghazals Written in English) / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615142737
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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THE FLAME OF TRANSFORMATION TURNS TO LIGHT is a book of poems in traditional ghazal form, the first half begun in Turkey, companion volume to "open form" poems written at a later visit, published in 2006 as Love is a Letter Burning in a High Wind (The Ecstatic Exchange). Visiting the epiphany-inducing tombs of Mevlana Rumi and his spiritual companion Shems in Konya, their baraka bathing the journey, the grave of Turkey's great native Sufi poet, Yunus Emre, and traveling through a land of such subtle spirituality, these poems chronicle an imagistic diary through both interior and exterior countrysides, with the second half continued in the same vein at home in Philadelphia.

Cooked Oranges / Poems

Cooked Oranges / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615163084
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Poetic inspiration continues to be a mystery to me, but I am its deep advocate, and hold to its irrational and shady acreage like a greedy real estate developer gazing out over the possibilities (a ramshackle hut here, a barn there, a castle with a lake yonder...). Is it angels, djinn, my black cat curled at the bottom of my bed while I'm hot in composition mode? My "unconscious," "God Consciousness?" (my fervent prayer).

The Match that Becomes a Conflagration

The Match that Becomes a Conflagration PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578177919
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Poems of Sufi Devotional nature, infused with the lights of nature, and praising and loving Allah The God of nature, and of all, each thread of which vibrates with God's Love in nature and out of nature.