Hafiz: A HARD DECREE

[learnteach]

LAST

Night


God
Posted
On the Tavern Wall

A Hard Decree for all of Love's Inmates:

(Which read:)


If your heart cannot find a joyful work


The jaws of this world
will probably

GRAB hold of your

Sweet
Ass.


(Slightly modified from Daniel Ladinsky's "The Gift Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master.")

Comments

[ladiesbane.livejournal.com]

Truer words! Would you mind if I re-posted this?

Sure.

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

But, as this is a repost from a book, I have no copyright over it. And as the original was written in the 1300's in Shiraz, as a ghazal, or love poem, so was in Farsi (or its medieval equivalent) and quite probably sung. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazal
Some examples: http://www.thesongsofhafiz.com/

I saw a tadpole skim away in a pond
Reaching in, a whale was in my hand's bond
Grabbing on, we were pulled into beyond
Moon, Light and the State of Being Blonde!

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

Words to live by... I think this is going up on the workshop wall

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Wow, it sounds like a description of where I work, particularly the large snapping jaws.

[martianfencer.livejournal.com]

I like it!