~GEOFFREY GORDON~
HANDS IN THE WIND
In a single breath,
our heart drum keeps
time
and ignites ancient empathy inside our bones
Happiness in love sounds
opens
all possibilities in the eternal presence of now
Separateness merges in the waters of our breath
Vital
energy continues walking and is awake to itself
Krishna takes off his battle armor
Sita,
hearing Rama's name,
offers her hands in the wind,
listening for all time in a single
breath
oh, this precious life!
~RABIA~
IT ACTS LIKE LOVE
It acts like love-music-
it
reaches toward the face, touches it, and tries to let you know
God's promise: that all will be okay.
It
acts like love-music and,
tells the feet, "You don't have to be so burdened."
My
body is covered with wounds
this world made,
but I longed to kiss God, even when
He said,
"Could you also kiss the hand that caused
each scar,
for
you will not find me until
you do."
It does that-music-helps us
to
forgive.
A BREAST IN THE SKY
I hear talk about the famous.
I
hear talk about different cities.
The most intimate events of families come to my ears.
I
hear about temples and mosques and saints.
All that can be said I have heard.
All
that can be wanted I have seen.
My interest in this world has waned though,
not
because I am
depressed.
A fish in a bowl I was,
a
bottom feeder,
but now I nurse
upon a breast
in
the
sky.
~SAINT THERESA OF AVILA~
When He touches me I clutch the sky's sheets,
the way other lovers
do.
the earth's weave
of clay.
Any real ecstacy
is a sign
you are moving
in the right
direction,
don't
let any prude tell
you otherwise.
~MIRABAI~
I
WANT YOU TO HAVE THIS
I
want
you to have
this,
all the beauty
in my eyes, and the grace of my mouth,
all the splendor of my
strength,
all
the
wonder of the musk parts
of my
body,
for are we
not
talking about real love, real
love?
~LALLA~
Dance,
Lalla, with nothing on
but air. Sing Lalla,
wearing the sky.
Look
at this glowing day! What clothes
could be so beautiful, or
more sacred?
~~~
Everything
is new now for me.
My mind is new, the moon, the sun.
The whole world looks
rinsed with water,
washed in the rain of I am That.
Lalla leaps and
dances inside the energy
that creates and sustains the universe.
~~~
If
you've melted your desires
in the river of time, choose
to be a recluse, or
choose
a family, the villiage job.
If you know the pure Lord within you,
you'll
be That, wherever.
~THE SONG OF SOLOMON~
Kiss me with the kisses of your mouth for your love is sweeter than wine
The
oils of your body are fragrant, the sound of your name is perfume
For good reason the people love you
Take
me with you and we will run
The king brings us into his bedchamber
We will rejoice and
celebrate sipping our fragrant love rather than wine
No wonder the people love you
Arise
my love, arise and come away with me
Behold the winter has passed and the rains have come
pushing
the buds up from the earth
The time of singing has come
The song of the nightingale
and turtledove are heard in the land
The fig tree forms it's first fruit, the blossoming vine gives off it's
fragrance
Arise my love and come away with me
Come away with me my
love, come away with me
We will leap over the mountains
From the dens of lions
and the lairs of panthers
You have ravished my heart with one bead of your necklace
You
have incited my soul with one glance of your eyes
How wonderful you are, how beautiful you are
You
are love, with all it's delights
I went down to the walnut garden
to see if the grapevines
were in blossom
and if the pomegranates were in flower
I do not know how it was, but my soul
swooned
and I found myself in a chariot, next to my prince
~GHALIB~
The world is no more than the beloved's single face;
In
the desire of the One to know it's own
beauty, we exist. Each place, each moment,
sings its particular
song of being and not being.
Without reason,the clear glass equally mirrors wisdom and madness.
Those
who claim knowledge are wrong; prayer just leads to trance;
Appearance and faith are mere lees in the Unkowing
Wine.
Wherever the Footprint is found,
that handful of dust holds
the
oneness of worlds.
This earth, burnished
by hearing the Name,
is
so certain of Love
That the sky bends
unceasingly down,
to
greet its own
light.
~INANNA~
The people of the city
loosened the tree.
From the roots of the tree
Gigamesh carved for Inanna a bed.
From
the trunk of the tree
he carved for Inanna a throne.
From the branches of
the tree
Inanna carved for Gilgamesh a drum stick
And from the trunk of the tree a drum.
She
gave the drum and drum stick to Gilgamesh.
Gilgamesh struck the drum
And awoke the people
of Uruk.
~KABIR~
My inside, listen to me, the greatest spirit
the
Teacher, is near,
wake, wake up!
Run to God's feet-
he is standing close
to your head right now.
You have slept for millions and millions of years.
Why
not wake up this morning?
~ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI~
It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful.
The
lessons of deeper knowledge though,
instructed me to embrace God in all things.
