Coattails of the Saint / Poems

Coattails of the Saint / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847280560
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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COATTAILS OF THE SAINT - is a collection of poems which chase after the coattails of sanctity, in this world with its "meanings set up as images" (a Sufi definition of what we take around us as reality), and those souls living among us right now and forever who have had bestowed upon them that dimension of sanctity which sets them apart while making them at the same time true human beings. Imagination has given these poems a "saintly" thread, with no particular saint in any traditional pantheon meant, but rather that essence of simple sainthood of which we are all (God willing) capable.

Coattails of the Saint / Poems

Coattails of the Saint / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847280560
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Book Description
COATTAILS OF THE SAINT - is a collection of poems which chase after the coattails of sanctity, in this world with its "meanings set up as images" (a Sufi definition of what we take around us as reality), and those souls living among us right now and forever who have had bestowed upon them that dimension of sanctity which sets them apart while making them at the same time true human beings. Imagination has given these poems a "saintly" thread, with no particular saint in any traditional pantheon meant, but rather that essence of simple sainthood of which we are all (God willing) capable.

Sparrow on the Prophet's Tomb / Poems

Sparrow on the Prophet's Tomb / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578027658
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Of the three books collected here, the first is celebratory of Islam's eschatology (next-world doctrine), the second an homage to the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the third written on an 'Umra in 1995/96 to Mecca and Medina... These are all poems of my root work, going down into the loam of study, practice and fidelity to the ideas and often the terminology of Islamic and Sufic thought, while my poetic development since these book incorporates more imaginally leaping imagery and unhesitantly associational language, to more openly circumscribe both the tone and experience of a modern American but cosmopolitan Muslim/Sufi in our very promising but rambunctiously tumultuous times.

A Maddening Disregard for the Passage of Time / Poems

A Maddening Disregard for the Passage of Time / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578046776
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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A MADDENING DISREGARD FOR THE PASSAGE OF TIME: While we are indeed born into time, and at death we slide out of time altogether into eternity, in whatever space we might conceive, in a supreme moment we might taste timelessness, fleeting though it may be (though that fleetingness too being still only a matter of time). But there are also those whose "disregard" of the passing of time is due to their absorption in Eternity, and The Eternal One.

Like When You Wave at a Train / Poems

Like When You Wave at a Train / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615204902
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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This may be my most personal book, as I wrote this collection of poems as an attempt to definitively and honestly connect in a deep way with Farid, my teenage stepson. Ah, since you're not my/ natural son, you can be my/ supernatural son! No actual genes of mine// swim in your blood, your flesh doesn't/ resemble mine, though since I've been your/ dad from the time you were two, we now have a/ definite// family resemblance, leaping over/ genetic fact like some sleek green grasshopper of/ supernatural light.

You Open a Door and It's a Starry Night / Poems

You Open a Door and It's a Starry Night / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578010046
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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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 should lead us to recognition of the Source? A continuation of the Ecstatic Exchange Project of putting a life in poetry, and poetry in life, in the new voice of a radiantly indigenous application of the Prophet Muhammad's revelation, peace be upon him, and its living and instantaneous continuation through enlightened teachers / ...a sky full of small circular rainbows like/pinwheels, small enough to see the/radiant sheen of their entire/circumference spinning, / a door you open and it's a starry night..

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

Love Is a Letter Burning in a High Wind / Poems

Love Is a Letter Burning in a High Wind / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615135994
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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LOVE IS A LETTER BURNING IN A HIGH WIND is a chronicle in sequential open field poems of a second visit to Turkey (the first recorded in formal ghazals), and to the glorious atmospheres of Sufi Master Mevlana Rumi and his gnostic teacher, Shams. Included are three extended narrative poems in the thematic style of Rumi's Masnawi, undertaken with no plot or source other than spontaneous inspiration. characterized by talking animals and "decapitated" watermelons. Ecstatic lyricism and sweet apprehension the impulse and goal to glorify and praise this swift life and its Originator and Sustainer: Sometimes I get tired of all this talk about God/ and I just want to go and sit under a tree// but then the tree starts talking to me about God/ and we find ourselves in another conversation

A Hundred Little 3D Pictures / Poetry

A Hundred Little 3D Pictures / Poetry PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578125609
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A Hundred Little 3D Pictures started out from those once-popular computer generated images a certain stare, unfocused or crosseyed, could render in layered three dimensions, with some really astonishing results... Recall the excitement in childhood when we looked into a diorama and saw back and back past whatever was being portrayed, not very far back really, perhaps, maybe only a shoebox length back, but peering through the front hole with the little flashlight or christmas bulb illuminating it, we saw a wee world that gave us shivers of delight.

Abdallah Jones and the Disappearing-Dust Caper / A Sufi Adventure Poem

Abdallah Jones and the Disappearing-Dust Caper / A Sufi Adventure Poem PDF Author:
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ISBN: 0615135706
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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This high adventure, in loosely metered heroic couplets, follows Abdallah Jones on his quest to capture the ball of disappearing-dust from the mad Sorcerer and stop the destruction of the world. He has been given the task by his Sufi shaykh, which takes him to the SorcererâÂÂs castle, where he meets Marbug the elf, Neptune, the King of the Jinn, and a collection of sweet and evilly dangerous characters along the way with more cliff-hangers and near-deaths than anyone but Abdallah should have to endure â and finally to Madina, the city of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of God be upon him, his shaykh and people from the âÂÂUmma of Islam from all over the world, and a marvelous solution to the whole caper. Black and white illustrations throughout by the author illuminate the text.