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July 08, 2009
He's the man!
I was sooooooooo excited to see Tess's blog about Hafiz, he is my main man, so much so that once a friend teased me that if I had to choose between them who would I choose.
I just love it that the words of someone speaking from the 1300's in a language I do not understand and a country I have never visited can feel such a part of me. His writing gets inside me moving me to cry, laugh, dance, sing, reflect & become silent.
He is also known as 'The Tongue of the Invisible' and his mission was to show that God could be found in the ordinary here on earth as well as in Heaven and this caused him more than a few problems with the religious fanatic's of his time. So nothing much has changed there then!
I hold my head high in the 'Hafiz fan club' for I am in very good company.... Queen Victoria and now Tess.
For anyone who wants to meet this man, a great book to start with is 'The Gift' poems by HAFIZ, translations by Daniel Ladinsky.
One of my many favourites is this
'Dropping Keys'
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.
And if you are interested my answer to my friend, was plucked from the lips of Hafiz himself 'A Pefect One Laughs at the word Two'
Posted by Shelliz at July 8, 2009 06:54 PM