Let me be still and silent So my words do not drown The sweet and subtle tones Of your Rahmah coming down
Poetry
Cobblestone Banter
Khalid, as you’re going Beware of not knowing Who you are talking to Your words may pave The way from your grave To where you’ll be walking to
Expanding
Like poetry written To meter and rhyme Infusing its substance With traces of time Or the angles and curves Of the ب that is drawn As bamboo unites With the leaf it is on Like the body Adamic With purpose and form Yet dead if devoid Of a breath that is warm Or the form of a prayer With pillars designed For peace when the heart Forces presence of mind Now think of a heart That is questing for what Is the Source of the senses That bring about thought That's fiercely probing Acute and intense So from it may grow An additional sense Then a visitor comes And he enters your cave To hold you, embrace you O sincere slave For a cosmic expansion Within and without By Word that is timeless And clear of doubt -- You’re missing the flavor If you cannot see: You honor the cup To honor the tea
Mending
Come, broken heart Be mended again Your pain’s a drought Your submission rain
Subtle
True knowledge is subtle Its serving is subtle It’s nourishing if The observing is subtle
Deflatingly
You don’t tell your win-thirsty team Right before the championship game That the English and Science and Math’s where it’s at All this winning and losing’s the same You’ve got eleven months to get it right, plan For eleven more once you get through it Let the wave that’s coming break over you man Now’s the right time to get all into it And remember that you Can say what is right And be idiotic even as you do it I know.
Effect and Cause
Act, for if you don’t, my friend You will have missed a chance to act Don’t act to fashion noble end For that is heedless of the fact That consequence is seas of veils Concealing timeless mysteries Of Will Divine that tilts the scales Of justice done by histories
Awestruck
Don’t be afraid
But be in awe
That you can overcome your fears
In awe of One
Bestowing strength
Intent, resolve and hopeful tears
Reflect
When you reflect on something
Let your sight
Glance upon it
Not collide with it
Squander upon it
In equal parts
“What’s wrong about it?”
“What’s right with it?”
Let your sight not judge
Or fight with it
Leave that part
Up to your heart
For reflection
Holds the weight
Of light
Let your sight
Glance upon it
Not collide with it
Squander upon it
In equal parts
“What’s wrong about it?”
“What’s right with it?”
Let your sight not judge
Or fight with it
Leave that part
Up to your heart
For reflection
Holds the weight
Of light
Holding Fast
To fast on end for forty days
To bring your heart into a state
Then cleanse your mouth to help expel
The odors in your silent breath
And then you learn the Lord was pleased
With what you thought offensive smelled
So off you fast for forty more
Before your conference is held
The prophets don’t just spend their time
They give of it in ways sublime
To bring your heart into a state
Then cleanse your mouth to help expel
The odors in your silent breath
And then you learn the Lord was pleased
With what you thought offensive smelled
So off you fast for forty more
Before your conference is held
The prophets don’t just spend their time
They give of it in ways sublime