I am posting some of the poetry of Hafiz in the Religion section as his
writings were often "ecstatic love songs from God to his beoved world,
many have called Hafiz the 'Tongue of the Invisible."

I find them to be passionate magic...

He was a Persian sharing life in the 1300's and who has influenced many
great writers and philosophers of modern time...


WHEN I WANT TO KISS GOD


When
No one is looking

I swallow deserts and clouds
And chew on mountains knowing
They are sweet
Bones!

When no one is looking and I want
To kiss
God

I just lift my own hand
To

My

Mouth.


-Hafiz-

EVERYWHERE

Running
Through the streets
Screaming,

Throwing rocks through windows,
Using my own head to ring
Great bells,

Pulling out my hair,
Tearing off my clothes,

Tying everything I own
To a stick,
And setting it on
Fire.

What else can Hafiz do tonight
To celebrate the madness,
The joy,

Of seeing God
Everywhere!


-Hafiz-

LAUGHING AT THE WORD TWO

Only

That Illumined
One

Who keeps
Seducing the formless into form

Had the charm to win my
Heart.

Only a Perfect One

Who is always
Laughing at the word
Two

Can make you know

Of

Love.

-Hafiz-

COURTEOUS TO THE ANT


God

Blooms

From the shoulder

Of the

Elephant

Who becomes

Courteous

To

The

Ant.


-Hafiz-

THE SCENT OF LIGHT


Like a great starving beast

My body is quivering

Fixed

On the scent

Of

Light.


-Hafiz-

THE FOUNDATIONFOR GREATNESS



Greatness

Is always built upon this foundation:

The ability

To appear, speak, and act

As the most

Common

Man.

-Hafiz-

I AM REALLY JUST A TAMBOURINE


Good

Poetry

Makes the universe admit a

Secret:

“I am

Really just a tambourine,

Grab hold,

Play me

Against your warm

Thigh.”


-Hafiz-

THE STAIRWAY OF EXISTENCE

We
Are not
In pursuit of formalities
Or fake religious
Laws,

For through the stairway of existence
We have come to God’s
Door.

We are
People who need to love, because
Love is the soul’s live,

Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.

Through
The stairway of existence,
O, through the stairway of existence, Hafiz,

Have
You now come,
Have we all now come to
The Beloved’s
Door.

-Hafiz-

They are beautiful

Have you more of them?

STOP BEING SO RELIGIOUS

What
Do sad people have in
Common?

It seems
They have all built a shrine
To the past

And often go there
And do a strange wail and
Worship.

What is the beginning of
Happiness?

It is to stop being
So religious

Like

That.

-Hafiz-

IT FELT LOVE

How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart

And give to this world
All its
Beauty?

It felt the encouragement of light
Against its
Being,

Otherwise,
We all remain

Too

Frightened.

-Hafiz-

WHY ABSTAIN?

Why
Abstain from love
When like the beautiful snow goose
Someday your soul
Will leave this summer
Camp?

Why
Abstain from happiness
When like a skilled lion
Our heart is
Nearing

And
Will someday see
The divine prey is
Always
Near!

-Hafiz-

Hello Andrea

the words sing

They surely do. Mind if I copy?

FOR A SINGLE TEAR

I know of beauty
That no one has ever
Known.

How could that be possible
When I may seem
So new in infinite time?

It is because God belongs to only you!

Did you hear that?
Did you hear what Hafiz just said?

God belongs to only you!

It is the only reasonable payment
For a single Tear.

-Hafiz-

Please DO!!!!

THE GREAT WORK


Love
Is the great work
Though every heart is first an
Apprentice

That slaves beneath the city of Light.

This wondrous trade,
This magnificent throne your soul
Is destined for –

You should not have to think
Much about it,

It is not clear
An apprentice needs a teacher
Who himself

Has charmed the universe
To reveal its wonders inside his cup.

Happiness is the great work,
Though every heart must first become
A student

To one
Who really knows
About Love.


-Hafiz-

THE GIFT

Our
Union is like this:

You feel cold
So I reach for a blanket to cover
Our shivering feet.

A hunger comes into your body
So I run to my garden
And start digging potatoes.

You ask for a few words of comfort and guidance,
I quickly kneel at your side offering you
This whole book –
As a gift.

You ache with loneliness one night
So much you weep

And I say,

Here’s a rope,
Tie it around me,

Hafiz
Will be your companion
For life.

-Hafiz-

HOW DO I LISTEN?


How

Do I

Listen to others?

As if everyone were my Master

Speaking to me

His

Cherished

Last

Words.

-Hafiz-

THAT REGAL COAT

Joy
Is the royal garment

And now everyday I could wear
That regal
Coat,

But I so love the common man
And feel for all
Their labor

I often paint a vast drop
Of compassion
In

My
Eye.

-Hafiz-