A Potted Plant

A Potted Plant

from The Subject Tonight is Love by Hafiz, translation by Daniel Ladinsky

I pull a sun from my coin purse each day.

And at night I let my pet the moon

Run freely into the sky meadow.

If I whistled,

She would turn her head and look at me.

If I then waved my arms,

She would come back wagging a marvelous tail

Of stars.

There are always a few men like me

In this world

Who are house-sitting for God.

We share His royal duties:

I water each day a favorite potted plant

Of His--

This earth.

Ask the Friend for love.

Ask Him again.

For I have learned that every heart will get

What it prays for

Most.



found here on the Peaceful Rivers website

A Great Need

A Great Need

by Hafiz, translation by Daniel Ladinsky

Out
Of a great need
We are all holding hands
And climbing.
Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That.



Found here on Astro Dream Advisor dot com

In That Moon Language

In that Moon Language
by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Landisky


Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, 'Love me.'
Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye
that is always saying,
with that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?

 Quoted by Father Greg Boyle in his interview with Krista Tippet in On Being here. 

Two Giant Fat People

Two Giant Fat People
by Hafiz translated by Daniel Ladinsky

God and I have become
Like two giant fat people
Living in a tiny boat
We keep
Bumping into each other
And laughing.


Found on Nasheen Husain's blog here.