In Constant Incandescence / Poems

In Constant Incandescence / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 057807608X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Book Description
Try to describe light and it's hopeless/ Nothing can quite catch in words luminous nothingness/ Hold something up in light and it's revealed in it say a/ miniature Easter Island head now brought out in its/ full strangeness by the surrounding illumination/ But how can you hold up something like light in light and hope to achieve/ the thing the flash the flat surrounding splashy airiness of brightness/ in whose beneficence everything/ including us is revealed?...

In Constant Incandescence / Poems

In Constant Incandescence / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 057807608X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Book Description
Try to describe light and it's hopeless/ Nothing can quite catch in words luminous nothingness/ Hold something up in light and it's revealed in it say a/ miniature Easter Island head now brought out in its/ full strangeness by the surrounding illumination/ But how can you hold up something like light in light and hope to achieve/ the thing the flash the flat surrounding splashy airiness of brightness/ in whose beneficence everything/ including us is revealed?...

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

Some / Poems

Some / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578143356
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Sufi poems from the love-ocean, washing at the shores of this world and the next, with God willing a depth charge or two to find new love grottos, new heights in underwater drownings, new depths in aerial flights. Contradictions? As Walt Whitman said, "Do I contradict myself? Yes, I contradict myself! I contain multitudes." And if we rub the self to its tissue-thin reality, God's Light shines more thoroughly through.

The Puzzle / Poems

The Puzzle / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578088916
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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A grand outgoing, heading directly into the puzzlement, the puzzle, puzzling it all out... Poems of search and devotion to the One, through labyrinthine manifestations... self and its various sheddings.

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 Soul's Home / Poems

The Soul's Home / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578142244
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Book Description
This collection from 2013 continues the intended trajectory of a lifetime's work that celebrates and posits the direct perception that The Divine Reality faces us from everywhere and in literally every circumstance of each moment of our lives. In this, the world's soul envelope has been turned inside out, revealing itself in images of light. Rather than invoking metaphors for experience, my project has been to "move from the word as symbol toward the word as reality" (as W.C. Williams said about the poetry of Ezra Pound), words not standing for an already completed experience, physical or spiritual, but in the act of writing itself revealing the core, the poem's very details being in themselves the experience, between seen and unseen, with transitive imagination the active aesthetic practice, as much as Allah inspires and allows.

Eternity Shimmers / Time Holds its Breath / Poems

Eternity Shimmers / Time Holds its Breath / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578148102
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Eternity shimmers in the room among the bright solid furniture that is the furniture of Eternity the bookcases and lamps the bed I wake from and the sound of the silence here that is its child the swirling ocean of time washing us in its blessings in constant motion of cylinder within cylinder of intangible turning invisible to the touch in which we age minute by minute inwardly forward but motionless in Eternity impossible to calculate except in angelic terms whose bright silver dazzles the mind beyond its usual earthly limitations whose walls and doors and streets and skies are sweetly blasted apart by the dimensions of Eternity and we live in it unbeknownst to us else we'd faint at the pure nothingness we are and God's Magnificence always facing us beyond even Eternity's confines and paltry measurements to show us anything but His resplendent Face in absolutely everything that is in its instant of being

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 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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Book Description
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...