I Carry Your Heart I Carry Your Heart With Me
(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it
(anywhere i go- you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing)
i fear not fate (for you are my fate)
i want no world
(For Beautiful You Are My World, My True) And It's You Are Whatever a
Moon Has Always Meant Whatever a Sun Will Always Sing: IS YOU
Here is the Deepest Secret nobody knows
 which grows Higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
This is the Wonder that's Keeping the Stars Apart
I Carry Your Heart
(i carry it in my heart)
- ee cummings
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My Favourite Poets, brought to contemporary English language. |
Jelaluddin Rumi, 13th century mystic poet, the most passionate and profound of poets. His spirit has been brought back through beautifully captured essences contained within his poems and by magic interpretations of Coleman Barks. Words so profound, taking us closer to the divine Soul-Essence.
Rumi was born in Afghanistan, in 1207. He produced his
master work the Masnawi which
consists of over 60,000 poems before he died in 1273.
With the ability to describe
the Indescribable, Ineffable - God, and take us with him on that whirling journey of ultimate discovery.
"Listen, and feel the beauty of your separation, the unsayable absence.""As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears." “Be empty of worrying. Who created thought?” |
Hafiz - Mystic Poet
The Most Wild and Beloved of Poets.
Affectionately known as the “Tongue of the Invisible”.
The great Poet-Seer Ralph Waldo Emerson remarked that “Hafiz is a poet for poets.” His poetry has a beautiful human-wild, rebellious and wave-like-dancing musical quality. It comes with such wit and spontaneity, hypnotising and manifesting images of the Divine. It shows a union with God that cannot be found anywhere else. With infinite wild poetic license, Hafiz expresses the spiritual experiences of a mystic, in love with his Beloved. He has this playful and enchanting way, weaving his wild themes of ambiguity into his poems. Often he uses secular images such as wine, drunkenness and human love, however these are symbols for the divine experiences which Hafiz is alluding to. "That Beloved has gone completely Wild - He has poured Himself into me! I am Blissful and Drunk and Overflowing." - From: The Great Secret Hafiz was born in the beautiful garden city of Shiraz in Persia (now Iran). As a young child he was called Shams–ud-din Mohammed. Hafiz proved to have a prodigious talent for literature. At an early age he successfully memorised the Qu’ran, and this is why he took the pen name of “Hafiz” – Hafiz means one who has memorised the entire Qu’ran by heart. As well as studying the Qu’ran Hafiz was also introduced to the other great Sufi poets such as Rumi, Farid–ud-din Attar and Saadi, these Sufi poets would later have some influence on his poetry. The story goes that Hafiz fell in love with this beautiful woman. He saw her one day whilst delivering bread. He falls under the spell of love for her and he cannot think of nothing else. He writes love poems dedicated to his sweetheart, and these became famous throughout Shiraz. Unable to live without his beloved, Hafiz resolved to undertake a 40 night vigil at the tomb of Baba Kuhi'. Babu Kuhi was a famous poet who promised to fulfil 3 desires of anyone who could stay awake for 40 nights at his tomb. Very tough!! On the last night Hafiz had a vision of the Angel Gabriel, who asked him what he wished for. He was so enchanted with her beauty, that he though that if this angel was so amazingly beautiful, then God must be astonishingly, unbearably more beautiful. God would be infinitely more beautiful than any human form he could ever wish for. So, he decided to ask for God. Gabriel revealed to him where he could find a spiritual master who would be able to lead him towards God. This master was Muhammed Attar, who lived a humble life in Shiraz. Hafiz became The Prodigious Poet, producing hundreds of poems which expressed a seekers longing for union with the divine. His poetry made him famous and gained the respect and love of many local inhabitants. However his ecstatic and unorthodox poetry displeased the ruling Muslim orthodoxy. Because of this Hafiz twice had to flea the city of Shiraz, on many occasions he was only saved by his sharp wit. At around the age of 60, his Master Attar, finally granted Hafiz his life long desire - union with God. From this point on Hafiz’s poems reflected a new consciousness, there was no longer any sense of separateness from God. Hafiz may have produced around 5,000 poems, although unfortunately these were not always written down and therefore there is some scholarly dispute about the authenticity of some of them. In the West Hafiz has only become famous in the last century. One of the most important early translations was by Gertrude Bell in 1897. Recently there have been new translations and versions by authors such as Daniel Ladinsky. These have helped Hafiz to become a well renowned poet in the West. The poetry of Hafiz has a universal attraction. It is said Hafiz once stated, “No one could ever paint a too Wonderful Picture of my Heart or God.” Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) “Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” “The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.” |