Sufi
Poetry
More than hundred poems available for publication.
I cast the garment of love over thee from Me.
And this in order that thou mayest be reared Mine
Eye.’ Quran 20:30
Mystical Presence
I know You are with me
Beloved
When the scent of Your Presence
Overwhelms me
A nameless fragrance
Sweet and intoxicating
Dare I name it
The incense of breath
From the very heart of
Champa, Chambeli
Rat-ki-Rani
Swooning, I inhale
Thirsting for more
Could death be sweeter
Than this bliss-rapture
Don’t leave me
Beloved!
Basra of the Sufis
Rabia’s city of Basra
Always the shrine of Love
Has fallen
Into the cauldron of violence
Blood flowing deep
Profounder than grief
Down the volcanic rivulets of earth
The lava of bereavement
Brittle and congealed
Rabia aghast and weeping
Pleading with the Sufis
Searching the blood-streaked sands
For Love, Glory and Peace
Of times lost and forgotten
The paragon of eighth century
She was the Mistress of the Sufis
Now ravished by wars
Her wisdom bruised and bleeding
Wounds scarlet in Age and Timelessness
Singing the song of the Prophet
‘If you Love God
Sanctify your Love
By loving God’s creatures First.’
Divine Gift of Ecstasy
In remembrance
I got lost
Inside the valley of dhikr
Each word a flame
Each memory a brand of fire
Stabbing, enveloping
Only Khidr, the comforting Guide
Licking away pain and torment
Of Separation
Five gates leading nowhere
Beloved far and Absent
Heart longing to embrace
The Unseen, the Unforgettable
Spiritual hungers
Thirsts inviolate
This journey into wilderness
Suddenly, a spark
The spiraling of music
Light cutting through veils
A glorious revelation
At the feet of my Beloved
I melt into nothingness
Pure bliss, rapture supreme
No dhikr, no Khidr
Sweet voice of silence
Divine Gift of ecstasy
New Millennium in Action
Light a candle of Love
Inside the ocean of peace and harmony
Waves of joy lapping
After the waters of Understanding
Rising in tides upon tides of sunshine
Rippling and cascading
To bathe the Face of this earth
With the Light of healing
As it lies bruised and bleeding
Its wounds large and cankerous
Gouged and mutilated
Over and over again
By the bombs of Ambition
And by the missiles of Madness
A civilized banner of truce?
The modern gong of Devastation
Warring, gloating Powers
Deep cankers of Ignorance
Oh, words most base and wretched
Be silent and comforted
Gather the mists in reveries
Oh, let this candle shine
Oh, let it shine
In the Light of Unity
Beloved with the Beloved
Pilgrimage
In the temple of my soul
Is a yearly ritual
Like the rite of hajj
Going around Kaaba
Kissing the Black Stone
Not knowing who I am
Nor feeling
Wither I drift
‘I’ is left behind
East, West
North and South
All barriers dissolve
Only Cosmic energy
Glittering, expanding, guiding
Unity in multiplicity
Bride with the bridegroom
Beloved with Beloved
G-d with God
Alas, then
The material dust rises
To blind vision
Muse
The spiritual god
Whipping me to awareness
Pain, desire, longing
Lost and earthbound, ‘I’
The jungle of time
Scalding everlastingly
Time eternal
Waiting
To embrace unity
In pilgrimage lost