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Premium Member Sufi Dream Poem-Theory: Cosmontological Uni-Ball
Cosmology + Ontology = Cosmontology 

NEW Cosmontological Principle: Be SO SO humble! 

>>> SEE NOTE BELOW 

A Sufi Dream-Poem--Our purposefully "proto-conscious" UNI-ballish recycling?

By: Moji Agha
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Categories: sufi, creation, destiny, imagination, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sufi Monk Credentialing
This self-explanatory English poem of mine was originally drafted Monday (evening) August 5, 2013, while I was still in Independence, Missouri. I revised it a...

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Categories: sufi, community, courage, fairy, freedom,
Form: Pastoral
Ecstasy of Sufi Whirling
Letting my body perfectly free
As anonymous star in the sky’s sea 
While whirling, I closed my eyes
Lit the Holy Candle inside
As light as an air
When...

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Categories: sufi, god, journey, religious, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Melting Point
The moment I saw you
I fell in love with the universe.
Like raindrops rippling a still pond,
our concentric circles coalesced -
moving past duality and melting into...

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Categories: sufi, appreciation, devotion, joy, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stars Will Be Watching Us
Mint stars reaching out to greet the sky 
Cool zephyr blowing across your cheeks
Much nearer, your silhouette appears
Like a fog carried by beams ,you advance
With...

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Categories: sufi, devotion, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Phenomenal Transient World
"The Phenomenal Transient World"



I had a thought
it came 
from Me

that internal Me
the Me, that Is,
I Am 

It traversed a 
world outwards
from inside

like the rings
recorded in...

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Categories: sufi, freedom, i am, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rainbows Here
Good earth styles
Fine ample grass;
A fine raiment


Sun and rain speak
Splurge fond refrain;
Rainbows echo


Dawn flings 
Shadows drowned;
Awake to birdsong


Man-made park
Forest architecture;
In the city


Journey here
Begin within;
Greet the...

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Categories: sufi, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan
Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
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Categories: sufi, religion, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Ektara - I Have a String Within

I
h  h  h
a   a   a
v    v    v
e     e ...

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Categories: sufi, spiritual, symbolism, wisdom,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member The Coop
The People's Coop
is a warm inviting place,
for some
a reading and meditation
and arts practice and performance space,
for others
a place to ride sleek bicycles
with self-and-other improvement book...

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Categories: sufi, change, earth, gospel, health,
Form: Political Verse
My Response To Rumi
RESPONSE TO RUMI

Tell the Friend I’m coming, with a wine sack and a thirst.
Been too long in solitude, got a sickness in my bones.

Pray? Where...

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Categories: sufi, desire, love, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Exclusion
I know the game of exclusion,
have played it all my life and
now I've mastered it,
a talent to brag about.

Exclusion from normality,
the joy of inclusion.
Exclusion from...

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Categories: sufi, absence,
Form: Ballad
My Guardian Angeles
My Guardian Angels

4/2013

Tattooed Angels
Enshrine my body,
Protectors of what's right,
forever vigilant
All day and all through the night!

Ganesh, Hindu Elephant God,
Loyal son of Shiva and Parvati
Embodiment of...

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Categories: sufi, daughter, father daughter, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Olympus Opium
tears fall from the eyes of a broken soul
lost without her mate of choice the shrunken soul

ask for the truth of the lie to be...

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Categories: sufi, africa, beautiful, beauty, identity,
Form: Ghazal
The Way of Bright Honour
o seeker read these words and weep
for thy soul so still asleep
as yet unawakened to
this world of love divine and deep

o seeker hear these words...

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Categories: sufi, allah, beauty, devotion, god,
Form: Rubaiyat

Book: Reflection on the Important Things