Millennial Prognostications / Poems

Millennial Prognostications / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578007738
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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MILLENNIAL PROGNOSTICATIONS: This is not a book of poetic futuristics, oracle-like I-Ching countings or consciousness Tarot readings, nothing so formal nor formulated. Perhaps its "prognostication" aspect is in trying to be open-hearted and sense-aware of images and their meanings, or meanings and their images, as they occur in the world both most immediate to us and by extension universal and even cosmic, detail by detail, focusing on what Blake called "minute particulars." It's a kind of lengthy prayer with sidebars, digressions and returns, hopefully each time more earnestly to the Source of all and of Whom, as it was said by the Prophet Muhammad, peace of Allah be upon him, "Do not curse time, for time is Allah..."

Millennial Prognostications / Poems

Millennial Prognostications / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578007738
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Book Description
MILLENNIAL PROGNOSTICATIONS: This is not a book of poetic futuristics, oracle-like I-Ching countings or consciousness Tarot readings, nothing so formal nor formulated. Perhaps its "prognostication" aspect is in trying to be open-hearted and sense-aware of images and their meanings, or meanings and their images, as they occur in the world both most immediate to us and by extension universal and even cosmic, detail by detail, focusing on what Blake called "minute particulars." It's a kind of lengthy prayer with sidebars, digressions and returns, hopefully each time more earnestly to the Source of all and of Whom, as it was said by the Prophet Muhammad, peace of Allah be upon him, "Do not curse time, for time is Allah..."

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.

Next Life / Poems

Next Life / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578120224
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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There are among us luminous beings who maintain that what we might taste of the Garden of Paradise and what we might suffer of the Fire of Hell is right here in our present earthly and mortal existence as well. The imaginal truth of the Spiritual Path that points to the Next World after death is perhaps indisputable (however some might vigorously dispute it) but our lives, upon reflection, sometimes thrown overboard and barely making it to shore, sometimes buoyed up very high and slammed down very low and hard, are a living proof of the this-world tasting of the Next World experience...

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.

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.

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).

Where Death Goes / Poems

Where Death Goes / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578010844
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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In all the human spiritual paths there are stories of great men and women of divine gnosis who die in states of exaltation, sweet relief, or harmonious blending with the Next World that is more of a pause, almost a whisper. And their deaths, while entering holy silence, bring into stronger emphasis their erstwhile presence among people as teachers and examples of true humanity and sincere piety, as if their own lives are proof-positive of Godâs merciful existence, and their deaths simply a continuing chapter in the Great Adventure. // There are poems about roses blooming on rose-stems/rising and swaying in an air of delirious voices//Love Lord is the fertile earth Your rich compost/black soil of death and disaffiliation that/precedes growth

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.

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.

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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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?...