the whirlpool

Direct
your devotions
Your passions
Your desires and
each step you take
towards the whirlpool, the vortex
within you.

Before you go far,
They grow wings of light and
Take you home.

Love is here

Sun glows from within sun.

Moon winks to the moon

The cosmos whirl around

Your breath.

 your own lips kiss your hands

 and you dissolve Into bliss.

I am not one of those friends

Who have answers to all questions.

But I know this:

Love is here  and I have long died

Into it.

Fear

Fear has no roots
it is has no wings.
it has no grooves.
it is no legs nor arms.
It is a pathetic thing.
It is shallow like a cloud
on the face of the blue sky.

If you gather your energy and
look at it straight,
it falters and then falls away
quickly.

Home

In the morning. Homa, our two years old and I were walking in the neighborhood. As we walked, we watched leaves falling from trees. While falling down, the leaves were laughing and dancing in the breeze. I asked Homa; "Do you know where we are now, beloved one? Do you know?" She said "Home. We are Home".  We walked another two blocks and I asked homa again, "Where are we now, Homa?"  'We are home." She said again. We continued to walk in silence. After waking for two or more blocks Homa gave me the same answer when I asked her where we were. Home.  A whisper in my heart came forth after  Homa's confirmation. We're home because whereever we are is HOME. Whereever we are is as sacred as Home. I stopped thinking about our arrival. Instead I continued to enjoy the walk.

If you knew how big your are

If you knew how big your are, dear friend
you will get shivers
 and cannot go back to sleep again.
I can say this to you this morning, beloved one
You're more than you can ever imgine or think.
The space between your breathes can contain
the entire universe. You're the space and the breath too.
you are  the fire as well as the wind that fans the fire.

for how long

For how long can you be
attached to something
That can be broken?
something that can be stolen,
Like your silverwares, for example.
Something that comes and goes,
For how long can you be
attached to something
That can be built or taken down
Something that can be lost or gained?
Like stock market.
For how long can you
chase bubbles and clouds
that can steal you from now and here
For bubbles can never be
Real.

beauty of all beings

You walk down the street
and suddenly stop at the sight
of a beautiful flower on the sidewalk or a spendid
sun madly making love to the evening sky.
Have you ever been stopped by the splendor
of your heart or
dazzled by the wisdom of your body or
the beauty of all beings surrounding you?

entry into your own heart

The cows rush to the river
with their dry mouth.
They are dying of thirst.
No matter which cow arrived first
or which one came last,
the water tasted wonderful in every mouth.
You see my friend?
the difference between you and I is
just the husk we wear
and underneath the husk
the content is the same.
If there is anybody or any thing
who could hinder your entry
into your own heart, it is you
and no one else.

constant dance of love

Life
is a constant dance of love
that no force can disrupt it.
but the very moment
you start thinking what will happen
in the future
or what has happened
in the past,
you miss her contact.

Tension rises high

Tension rises high when
The ego wants to justify
its importance to the world.
This is happening in the streets of Damascus
It is happening in Africa and every where.

It says:
I am very important
And the world needs me badly
I am the only one for the whole planet and
If I die, the entire world will collapse
And the sun won’t rise again.
And flowers won’t bloom again.

It says:
I really want to fall in love and dissolve
But not now. I have more important
Things to do first.

for several years

for several years
my friends and neighbors pretended
to be humans
working hard on the farms, in the factories,
building towns and raising family.
One morning, they woke up and knew
that they are the skies full of dazzling stars
and sweet-mouthed moons and tender suns
that have never been touched by time
and space.

journeys

external journeys might take you
to exotic places full of past memories
and rich historical facts and cultures.

Inner journeys take you
right into yourself, into your own living room
with a fireplace;
to the one whose fragrance you've
always wanted to smell;
Your inner journeys take you
to the realm that never judges you
by the size of your luggage.

more

Beloved:
last night I heard you singing
in my room.
I felt you dancing
inside of me.
Your presence, your aroma, your melody was so delicate
and delicious that I screamed with joy:
Please beloved, more! more!
Then you said;
dear one, isn't the dance, the dancer and the dancefloor one?
Isn't the act of singing, the song, the singer
and audience one?

with love like this

with love like this churning me,
with love like this rocking me,
How can I be careful?
How can I hide in the dark corners
and moan?
the one who can intoxicate me
 is here.
the one who can turn me on
is here.
how can I hide in the dark corners
and moan?
With love like this
trees want to tear off their bark
and dance in the streets full of trees.
With love like this
all beings on the ground
want to turn into spirit
and soar the skies.
How can I sit in the dark corners
and moan?

doctor's prescription

this is not
a requirement nor
a doctor's prescription.
But it is absolutely necessary for one
to get lost, bewildered and utterly transfixed
to get back on truck,
to find oneself again.

love room

Don't come into the love room
with decisions already made,
with preloaded softwares and
lists of expectations.
It is not your knowledge,
It is not your accomplishments
it is not your popularity
that love wants.
It is rather your pure heart.
It is your authenticity
that love wants from you.

as soon as I leave this place

I could hear
A baby crying somewhere.
Right next to me, in the bus
An old man with a long white beard and no teeth.
He sucks on a candy with his gum. a young man catches up with the
world news from his ipad.
 A lady walks by on a very high heeled boots
 darting her beautiful eyes looking for empty seats.
A few minutes later I get off the bus where
a man parks his train to have lunch at the McDonald’s.
all these happen in the now.
I have learned so much from my daughter.
she says after every little activity,
we have to clean the mess we've made.
 as soon as I leave this place
I will clear them from the mind.
otherwise the mind  is good at   replaying them a million times
the very same way
cattle chew their cud all night long.

your heart’s circumference

Where your feet want to go
Don’t doubt for safety because it is
Within your heart’s circumference.
They say
A hippo becomes thirsty in the sea,
Then leaves the water to lick the dew
from dry grass.

Tell me the name of this insect
Who, as soon as he makes intense love
To his partner, drops dead.
Never mind, he does not know
He has a name.
See,
Love makes us fearless,
To let go of ourselves
And dissolve.

all this time

All this time
all these years,
if you have not felt
the pull of this love,
is it your fault?
Not at all.
It is not body's fault.
It is just you were not here.
You probably vanished behind
your ceaseless stream of thoughts or
may be you went down to hunt
quails for your survival.

inside the barrel

How many times a day
do you have to say,
I am not able to do this,
I  am not able to do that?
Look what is happening
inside the barrel.
the wine is fermenting very fast on its own.
The process intensifies itself  until it spills over with abundance.
The mind fears it is going to be  a waste.  That is not true.
Like a farmer who  patiently waits of the rain,
The world has been
Waiting for so long to see this.

accept yourself as you are

First
accept yourself as you are,
without editing.
You are not a piece of prose
or a term paper.
then the faith in yourself can turn
your thought and actions into a
masterpiece music.
Your work is now
to listen.

many names

You can give it

many names.

if you want.

but any trip

 you  take now

leads you

 to the same place.

There might be

 ten million windows

and a million gates

but

the room is one.

Any trip

you want to take now,

dear friend,

leads  from you and to your own

heart.

cavities of longing

in the land
where there are no
superiors or inferiors,
winners or losers,
subjects or objects,
the scent of love
travels faster to touch
the cavities of longing.

Every sound we make

Every sound we make
is the sign of hunger and thirst.
a calf cries for her mother
all day.
Evening arrives
and then the cow comes
with milk dripping from her udder.

Where does your sweetness
come from? I said to a robin.
From a deep silence
that cannot even be uttered.
she said and kept singing.

Ego

In short;
Ego is
A thought moving under the tunnel,
unnoticed, away from the sun.
As soon as it is out
in the open field
bathed with sunlight
First,
it blinks and staggers
and then
it melts away
helplessly, very quickly
and comes back
as a flower.

light pours into light

light pours into light.
love flows into love.
The cord of resistance
breaks free
and expansion happens in the
snap of the finger.
and your face becomes the sky
where the moon moves through.

Love knows you

Dear one
Love knows you
More than you can imagine
because she knows herself.
How quickly you become disappointed
by situations around you
Shows me
You have a  work to do on your interior.
Now
come to the garden,
where all beings are
at the same wave-length-frequency,
same depth-dimension-density
and let everything that has not
yet settled transform itself
into a brilliant light.

Great poetry

Great poetry
is not the one
that brings you light.

It is the one
that evokes the light
already inside you.

Nor the one that
Delivers flowers to your house
every week
It is rather the one what whispers to you:
"Dear one,  for how long
have you been looking for yourself?"