#hafiz — Public Fediverse posts

For I have learned that every heart will get
what it prays for
most.

—Hafiz

2/2 #poetry #plants #hoya #hafiz

A Potted Plant

I pull a sun from my coin purse each day.
And at night I let my pet, the moon,
run freely into the sky meadow.

If I whistled,
she would turn her head and look at me.

If I then waved my arms,
she would come back wagging a marvelous tail
of stars.

There are always a few men like me
in this world

who are house-sitting for God.

We share His royal duties:

I water each day a favorite potted plant
of His –
this earth.

Ask for love.
Ask again.

1/2 #poetey #hafiz

A Potted Plant

#poetry #hafiz #plants #beauty

Shaghayegh Mohammadi, the wife of an Iranian premier league football player, has been summoned to court in #Iran for posting a verse from 14th century poet #Hafiz on the day of former President Ebrahim #Raisi death: “Be happy that the tyrant did not make his way home.” #butcheroftehran #eatshitraisi #womanlifefreedom

Juno on my shoulder.

#catsofmastodon #shouldercat #AutisticJoy #Hafiz

The Danger

This is how we wake, with winespills
On the prayer rug, and even the tavernmaster
is loading up. My life has gone
From willfullness to disrepute,
And I won't conceal, either, the joy
That led me out toward laughter…

How can someone with a light shoulder-pack
Walking the beach know how a night sea-journey is?

Hafiz! Stay in the dangerous life that's yours.
There you'll meet the face
That dissolves fear.

#Hafiz

#poetry #spirituality #friday

Hafiz
#Hafiz

@aparrish

The
Difference
Between a good artist
And a great one

Is:

The novice
Will often lay down his tool
Or brush

Then pick up an invisible club
On the mind's table

And helplessly smash the easels and
Jade

Whereas the vintage man
No longer hurts himself or anyone

And keeps on
Sculpting

Light.

#hafiz