Best Dervish Poems

Gaining, by loosing
dancing to the mystic tune
the whirling dervish...

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The bedlam lifts if only for a while;
a brief but needed calm falls on the house
when she departs for school aboard the bus.
Though trying hard to suppress overt smiles,
I grin in the direction of my spouse,
for any more would be superfluous.

But storms can interrupt our...

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Forced me into the birdcage, nervous while plundering
The lash around my neck, result of blundering
Awakened my wrath, vigorous equally thundering
Misplaced under the tent, pretense of a dervish wondering....

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I sometimes reconsider
all our politicians
and economists,

Not as party-line teachers,
or even dogmatic preachers,
instead as future forecasting,
co-infesting deep past
and present listening
with compassioning
co-empathic
therapeutic intent
to laugh and sing.

Who is not
at least a private health care politician
seeking to empower our heart-felt constituencies
and not to disempower?

What responsible adult
is not at least...

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Totem pole dervish
whirling with glee
Thrilled in color formation
spinning her enthusiasm
Over sky’s horizon
Showing off like crazy
Her diverse animal power
Red cardinal, black crow,
gray wolf, leaning with yellow eyes
smacking his lips over the smell of the
deer who knows something is amiss 
staying in the meadow, watching the
whirling, as...

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dancing 
prancing
twirling
whirling
dervish loving lake’s mirror reflection
dancing, prancing, whirling inspection...

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(Acrostic on  D-E-A-T-H )


Death never can touch his pure soul
Eternal breath he has come with here
After birth his soul crosses the Azrael
Till reaching to the goal of satisfaction
Heaven or hell is not his wishing place to live



-October 17, 2018 Chattogram...

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They begin to turn
Slowly unravelling
Arms unfurling, 
then skirts,
Spreading outwards
Lifting upwards

Softly stepping
Grounding down
Their feet repeat 
the pattern 
On the earth
One around the other

Whirling round
Their circular orbit
Expanding out
ascending through
Sama and devotion
Ecstasy and love 
...

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