1. All the Hemispheres

    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

    Hafiz poem

  2. i am

    sun shaped silhouettes of silence
    seduced sensitivity
    gently shaping my reality

    tears of broken dreams
    shattered by a softness of unfathomable understanding
    impregnated peace

    drips like honey from the fountain
    of my own courage
    to live in truth

    mysterious
    mystical
    magical

    the birds song tells the complete story

    shuuuuuuu
    just listen my friend

    silence

    the ground squirrels even know the secret
    kept by a thousand dreams

    mountain inspired
    a journey that only the moon can whisper

    sun shadows
    my shadow

    a blade of grass
    dances to life’s song

    are you listening
    can you see

    silence
    is love’s catalyst
    my voice will give it wings

    heart roots
    my roots

    derek dodds poem