I have no destination, no map, and no expectations...my only hope is to fully experience what this form of expression yields.



Sunday, January 2, 2011

to start this new year...

a poem. Hafiz is one of my favorite poets. This poem sums up what I reach for in this coming year...enjoy!

All the Hemispheres


Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.

Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And Giving
Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.

Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back Home.

All the hemispheres in heaven 
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting

While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.

~Hafiz

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