Poetry for the Soul: “With That Moon Language” by the Persian lyric poet Hafiz
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In our darkest hours, when we are at our most vulnerable, we can revisit the wisdom of our poets. Poetry is like food for our soul and can become a co-traveler for the road ahead. Indeed, images and metaphors found within poems enable us to express emotion that may otherwise be too hard and even threatening to utter directly. For me, poetry is like engaging in dialogue where there is a sense of reciprocated understanding and attunement.
“With That Moon Language” by the Persian lyric poet Hafiz is reprinted from Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, by Daniel Ladinsky.
Hazif translator David Ladinsky says in a BBC interview, “ To be engaged by a true teacher like Hafiz is to have lasting ingredients put into your mind, that when cooked through contemplation help us lead a better life. Inherent in engaging someone’s interest is to make them present. And with so many suffering the tyranny of some past event or anxieties about the future, what a gift being in the moment can be, especially then if a jewel can be slipped into your pocket by some magi’s brush stroke, writings, sculpture, instrument, or ballet step. Hafiz helps us inherit a treasure that is already ours…”
Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."
Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise
someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a
full moon in each eye that is
always saying,
with that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in
this world is
dying to
hear?
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