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The Throne Perpendicular to All that is Horizontal

The Throne Perpendicular to All that is Horizontal PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578140527
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
We're born in a relationship with theology. Nurtured in the womb by other than our means, born into the world at large, at very large, from our meditative seclusion, our khalwa, the Arabic for spiritual retreat (often practiced in a closet-like room just enough for a devotee to sit comfortably) we emerge into a theological world, willy-nilly. As soon as we take a breath of worldly oxygen we're in a tight relationship with the whole God-system, as believers or non-believers, until our last breath leaves us. So in the title, it's a Throne that is perpendicular, at an always angle, to all that is in our and all worlds, while still being "seated" (only "as it were") within it, and Allah "seated" upon it. And this is our present and ever-present reality, in all its manifestations. It's a way of seeing and a way of being, and everyone down to the minutest mouse, is in "theological" relation to it. Oh, that feather floating through the air, and that ant at the water drain! Yes, you there... you too!

The Throne Perpendicular to All that is Horizontal

The Throne Perpendicular to All that is Horizontal PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578140527
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
We're born in a relationship with theology. Nurtured in the womb by other than our means, born into the world at large, at very large, from our meditative seclusion, our khalwa, the Arabic for spiritual retreat (often practiced in a closet-like room just enough for a devotee to sit comfortably) we emerge into a theological world, willy-nilly. As soon as we take a breath of worldly oxygen we're in a tight relationship with the whole God-system, as believers or non-believers, until our last breath leaves us. So in the title, it's a Throne that is perpendicular, at an always angle, to all that is in our and all worlds, while still being "seated" (only "as it were") within it, and Allah "seated" upon it. And this is our present and ever-present reality, in all its manifestations. It's a way of seeing and a way of being, and everyone down to the minutest mouse, is in "theological" relation to it. Oh, that feather floating through the air, and that ant at the water drain! Yes, you there... you too!

The Soul's Home / Poems

The Soul's Home / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578142244
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
This collection from 2013 continues the intended trajectory of a lifetime's work that celebrates and posits the direct perception that The Divine Reality faces us from everywhere and in literally every circumstance of each moment of our lives. In this, the world's soul envelope has been turned inside out, revealing itself in images of light. Rather than invoking metaphors for experience, my project has been to "move from the word as symbol toward the word as reality" (as W.C. Williams said about the poetry of Ezra Pound), words not standing for an already completed experience, physical or spiritual, but in the act of writing itself revealing the core, the poem's very details being in themselves the experience, between seen and unseen, with transitive imagination the active aesthetic practice, as much as Allah inspires and allows.

Eternity Shimmers / Time Holds its Breath / Poems

Eternity Shimmers / Time Holds its Breath / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578148102
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Eternity shimmers in the room among the bright solid furniture that is the furniture of Eternity the bookcases and lamps the bed I wake from and the sound of the silence here that is its child the swirling ocean of time washing us in its blessings in constant motion of cylinder within cylinder of intangible turning invisible to the touch in which we age minute by minute inwardly forward but motionless in Eternity impossible to calculate except in angelic terms whose bright silver dazzles the mind beyond its usual earthly limitations whose walls and doors and streets and skies are sweetly blasted apart by the dimensions of Eternity and we live in it unbeknownst to us else we'd faint at the pure nothingness we are and God's Magnificence always facing us beyond even Eternity's confines and paltry measurements to show us anything but His resplendent Face in absolutely everything that is in its instant of being

The Caged Bear Spies the Angel / Poems

The Caged Bear Spies the Angel / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578085127
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
The luster of a glisten is/enough to elicit bliss//The gleam from a beam/enough to confound the intellect//The crack of a rock in a creek/can take us back to where//we lost track//The whiff of a sniff can lift/even the most morose heart//from the hotbed of heartbreak//All these phenomena/splinter and splatter in//this world to focus from the/unseen world onto this one//some hint of the high rainbowing/laughter to come...

Sparks Off the Main Strike / Poems

Sparks Off the Main Strike / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578071452
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
In all the poems of a poet's work there's the impulse to get to the bottom of things, to the original energy pulse, the first cause as it manifests in the present tense, the spark off the main strike. As always, the title came to me first, and the poems followed, some faithful some astray from the theme, but always rebounding back again to resonate with that original strike, in these scattered sparks.

Holiday from the Perfect Crime / Poems

Holiday from the Perfect Crime / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578082934
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Somehow the resonance for me during the entertaining of this title as an abiding albeit background theme for the poems, was the perfect crime of our existence: perfect because created by a perfect Creator. A crime because we get up to such malfeasance all the time, at the lower end of it, and a crime at the higher end in the sense that the Sufis often mention, that any existence of theirs before Allah ta'ala, any flake or residue of their self-ness, is a crime, a flaw, an obstruction before the Light of God. Only when you have known a saint (wali) of whatever spiritual practice do you the sense of a personality honed to its finest before the divine consciousness, whose actions and words and thoughts are soaked in divinity to such a degree that the person is truly human in its essence and effaced before God in His ever-present and infinitely Merciful activity.

Blood Songs / Poems

Blood Songs / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578106787
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 131

Book Description
.".".The look of love death has on its face and in its fathomless eyes as behind the burning irises legions upon legions of angels file up and down a spiraling staircase carrying love-notes and bringing back blessings and reprieves..."" I'm really not sure why this particular collection of my poems is called Blood Songs, the title it has had since beginning the first poem of the book written in October of 2000, and though, as with other titles of mine, not necessarily threading a theme throughout, yet the title stands notwithstanding... and so it stands.

A Maddening Disregard for the Passage of Time / Poems

A Maddening Disregard for the Passage of Time / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578046776
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
A MADDENING DISREGARD FOR THE PASSAGE OF TIME: While we are indeed born into time, and at death we slide out of time altogether into eternity, in whatever space we might conceive, in a supreme moment we might taste timelessness, fleeting though it may be (though that fleetingness too being still only a matter of time). But there are also those whose "disregard" of the passing of time is due to their absorption in Eternity, and The Eternal One.

Next Life / Poems

Next Life / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578120224
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
There are among us luminous beings who maintain that what we might taste of the Garden of Paradise and what we might suffer of the Fire of Hell is right here in our present earthly and mortal existence as well. The imaginal truth of the Spiritual Path that points to the Next World after death is perhaps indisputable (however some might vigorously dispute it) but our lives, upon reflection, sometimes thrown overboard and barely making it to shore, sometimes buoyed up very high and slammed down very low and hard, are a living proof of the this-world tasting of the Next World experience...

The Crown of Creation / Poems

The Crown of Creation / Poems PDF Author: Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578109190
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
This poem was suggested in a flash by a paragraph in Michael McClure's book, "Scratching the Beat Surface," in which he quotes Ernst Haekel in the words used here as an epigraph, "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." He goes on to say, in explanation, "Haekel meant that the individual, in his growth from meeting of sperm and ovum at conception, lives out, in fetus, the growth and evolution of his tribe; that first he is an amoeba, then a colonial organism, then an invertebrate, then a lancet, then a fish, until at last he is a mammal and a human." Reading this brought together for me various strands of thought into one clear picture, in harmony with the cosmological picture of the Muslim saints: "Man is a little cosmos, the cosmos is a big man." And the view that Allah created the entire creation as a setting, as it were, into which He placed man, the jewel, the perfect diamond, as the seal and culmination of this creation. ________________________________________________