Dance Open Like The Rose

This short poem, just two sentences, came up a couple times this week. The words on this link are verbatim as printed in my book, The Gift, on page 121. The poem is titled, “It Felt Love.” It is one of my original Hafiz renderings-inspirations. 

I like giving some of my Hafiz poems a Zen quality of being only one or two lines at times. I have the idea of even doing a book called: Rumi & Hafiz Go Haiku. (You can read more about that and another of my next books & series in my next blog post.)

I had never heard of Webster Hubbell until seeing this, or ever had any contact with him. Seems he was a major player in politics and law under the Clinton administration. Google him. And the link above, too, offers some bio. 

I like a lot his annotation on this poem. And guess he just saw it somewhere on the Web where it was not credited to me or one of my books. It appears in two of them— the other is my Penguin anthology: Love Poems From God. Bottom line: thanks, thanks & thanks Webb, for sharing it like this.

And here are two little Hafiz goes haiku, I just wrote:

sit with me

on a limb in the sky

like the moon

And:

that wild gal the moon

really sings all the time

and wants us to join in

— Hafiz & Danny trying to help the munchkins! 

OOO, one more. No wonder scholars don't like me, but couldn't Hafiz (or Rumi) really have said this? 

sitting on the moon  

with Buddha and dangling 

our feet in the sky

I am addicted to haiku, can't stop:

there's lots of room

where the sun and I sit

on a limb in the sky

join us

Got to have a four line haiku once in a while, to keep things lively. And to say: every good Rumi & Hafiz poem, any great art, is really an invitation to join more light, to dance open like the rose. 

The sun became so full of love

look at all it can do!