I thought I'd post this poem because it seems to fit with my Running to Ecstasy blog. The poem is taken from 'The Subject Tonight is Love' by Hafiz, as translated by Daniel Ladinsky. The image is from the tomb of Hafiz in Iran. A note: Interesting isn't it, that such beautiful geometric design and such beautiful words come out from a country that today is run by religious zealots. My guess is that beauty and ugliness are always neighbours and that perhaps one cannot be seen without the other - i.e. for a lamp to shine brightly, it must be surrounded by darkness.
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.
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