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The 12 Days of Hafiz: Day 8

It's a bit like a spiritual hokey-cokey, this life malarkey ↕️

The 12 Days of Hafiz: Day 8
Topkapi Palace Imperial Harem, Istanbul | Photo by Mrs Croft
THIS TALKING RAG
It was all
So clear
This morning,
My mind and heart had never felt
More convinced:
There is only God,
A Great Wild
God.
But somehow I got yanked from
That annihilating
Realisation
And can now appear again
As this wine-stained
Talking
Rag.
~ Hafiz
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"This Talking Rag" from The Gift, Daniel Ladinsky, copyright 1999. www.danielladinsky.com. Printed with permission.

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