My Sweet, Crushed Angel
You have not danced so badly, my dear,
Trying to hold hands with the Beautiful One.
You have waltzed with great style,
My sweet, crushed angel,
To have ever neared God's heart at all.
Our Partner is notoriously difficult to follow,
And even His best musicians are not always easy
To hear.
So what if the music has stopped for a while.
So what
If the price of admission to the Divine
Is out of reach tonight.
So what, my dear,
If you do not have the ante to gamble for Real Love.
The mind and the body are famous
For holding the heart ransom,
But Hafiz knows the Beloved's eternal habits.
Have patience,
For He will not be able to resist your longing
For Long.
You have not danced so badly, my dear,
Trying to kiss the Beautiful One.
You have actually waltzed with tremendous style,
O my sweet,
O my sweet crushed angel.
-- Hafiz
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Does it make me a bad person (or possibly just a cultural troglodyte) that when I first read this, my immediate thought was 'it's a poem for Andreassa!'????
You can shoot me now if you want to.
Hugs, and glad you got back home safe
T
Also - FYI - this has formatted far better in your blogger journal than in the feed that goes through to LJ
A wonder for google,
and,
a wonder for me,
too.
Which of which,
and,
where of here,
and,
thus I go,
you see.
I know it's formatted better. The LiveJournal feed uniformly takes extra line breaks on. I don't know why or how to stop it. :-(
LJ uses a bunch of special tags. If you use (and I may have got the exact tag wrong>) [lj-raw] ... [/lj-raw] or so, then use [br] manually for your carriage returns that should fix it.
- Alasdair
I was very touched by this! Wow!
Well i will be looking at your site for new inspiring things everyday!
:)
My advice has just ruined the formatting on this site. Also, the square bracket was really a pointy bracket, sorry for the confusion.
- Lal
I dunno, I love the idea behind this poem, but the execution just doesn't grab me by the heartstrings. Maybe if I could read it in the original Persian or whatever (problem with translation, sort of thing). There's another by Hafiz that I like a lot:
We Should Talk about This Problem
There is a Beautiful Creature
Living in a hole you have dug.
So at night
I set fruit and grains
And little pots of wine and milk
Beside your soft earthen mounds,
And I often sing.
But still, my dear,
You do not come out.
I have fallen in love with Someone
Who hides inside you.
We should talk about this problem---
Otherwise,
I will never leave you alone.
-- Hafiz
insert sound of awed silence
Alan
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