glow

Not a single soul lacks

a pathway to you.

There's no stone,

no flower-

not a single piece of straw-

lacking your existence.

In every particle of the world,

the moon of your love

causes the heart

of each atom to glow.

~ Muhammad Shirin Maghribi  

from Love's Alchemy

Poems from the Sufi Tradition

translations by David and Sabrineh Fideler

a thousand years of joy - the film trailer

what difference

Some time when the river is ice ask me

mistakes I have made. Ask me whether

what I have done is my life. Others

have come in their slow way into

my thought, and some have tried to help

or to hurt: ask me what difference

their strongest love or hate has made.

I will listen to what you say.

You and I can turn and look

at the silent river and wait. We know

the current is there, hidden; and there

are comings and goings from miles away

that hold the stillness exactly before us.

What the river says, that is what I say.

~ William Stafford
from Ask Me

what is happening

Instant to instant

we ask, what is happening?

The sound of shattering everywhere,

is it the world, fragmenting at last,

or our own hearts cracking,

the final break-up of ice?

~ Dorothy Walters

from Marrow of Flame

how much

~  Beth Cioffoletti
 louie louie blog