The Gift

Cushion for Your Head

Hafiz | December 2021 (Vol. XXXIV, No. 11)
Just sit there right now
Don't do a thing
Just rest
For your separation from God
Is the hardest work in this world
Let me bring you trays of food
And something that you like to drink
You can use my soft words
As a cushion for your head
~ Hafiz from "Cushion for Your Head" in THE GIFT

The house we live in

Hafiz | March 2020 (Vol. XXXIII, No. 3)

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

~ Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

A still cup

Hafiz | November 2018 (Vol. XXXI, No. 10)
For God
To make love,
For the divine alchemy to work,
The Pitcher needs a still cup.
~ Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky in THE GIFT

Dropping Keys

Hafiz | Soul Craft Poetry
The small man
Builds cages for everyone
He
knows.
While the sage,
Who has to duck his head
When the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys all night long
For the
Beautiful
Rowdy
Prisoners.
~ from THE GIFT by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Let Thought Become Your Beautiful Lover

Hafiz | Soul Craft Poetry

Let thought become the beautiful Woman.

Cultivate your mind and heart to that depth

That it can give you everything
A warm body can.

Why just keep making love with God's child-- Form

When the Friend Himself is standing
Before us
So open-armed?

My dear,
Let prayer become your beautiful Lover

And become free,
Become free of this whole world
Like Hafiz.

~ from THE GIFT by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Mix them!

Hafiz | December 1999 (Vol. XII, No. 11)

Cultivate seeds of joy!

You carry
All the ingredients
To turn your life into a nightmare --
Don't mix them!

You carry all the ingredients
To turn your existence into joy,

Mix them,
Mix Them!

~ from THE GIFT by Hafiz with thanks to Paula Brown
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