Sufi Poems

The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Footnotes and Glossary Part two

Cultural and Social Terms

Idol: In Persian poetry, often refers to the beloved, particularly one who is non-Muslim. The term carries complex connotations of forbidden desire and spiritual challenge.

Veil: Refers both to the physical head covering and the metaphysical veil between the material and spiritual worlds in Sufi thought.

Fate's Wheel: The wheel of fortune or destiny

Categories: sufi, cute love,
Form: Prose

The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Footnotes and Glossary Part one

Literary and Cultural Terms

Masnavi (also Mathnawi): A classical Persian poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets with a continuous narrative. The most famous example is Rumi's Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (Spiritual Couplets), a foundational work of Sufi literature.

Saqi (also Saqi): The cupbearer or wine-server in Persian poetry, often a beautiful youth who serves wine at gatherings. In Sufi

Categories: sufi, cute love,
Form: Prose

sufi whirl

sufi sun
at center
rumi trance

joyful earth
divine love
mystic daze

subtle sound
dizzy beats
rhythm control

floating floor
giddy dance
ego spins

repeat turn
sway slowly
receive grace

Categories: sufi, dance,
Form: Tristich

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Wanderer

Wanderer,
free spirit,
gets around the endless world,
he relentlessly seeks happiness.
Open your eyes
encounter an aurora borealis
simple to perfection,
like a lost Eskimo
or as a Buddhist monk
who attains Nirvana somewhere in distant Burma.
Or rather as an aborigine influenced by mysticism
or a lost Sufi
among the vapors of the hookah,
the scents of a forgotten time
that leave behind only the perfume of

Categories: sufi, africa, beauty, happiness, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Mani, the Hoopoe That Flew

Beneath the shapeless sky of blue
In the valley lacking a hue

Was an isolated thin pond 
Where birds sang their short song to bond

Singing a song hoarse with throats sore
In the midst of their pond’s vapour 

And dunking their bodies with threads
Into the pond, scratching their heads

In the midst of this quacking though
A foreign and sweet

Categories: sufi, animal, bird, growing up,
Form: Rhyme

Sawali Qawali

Mashoq jay razi na hovay nach kay manana painda
Jay tun bhalu nu manana pehlay sain nu manaa
Jhalya bhalu manana sokha sain manana aukha
Nach kay sain nu mana pavain loki akhan kanjar
Jhalya bhalu manana sokha sain manana aukha
Jay tun bhalu nu manana pehlay sain nu manaa 
Mashoq jay razi na hovay nach kay manana painda.

Categories: sufi, allah, color, dedication, depression,
Form: Free verse

Rumi Translation: the Field

The Field
by Rumi 
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field. 
I'll meet you there. 
When the soul lazes in such lush grass 
the world is too full for discussion. 

Rumi was a Sufi mystic and a believer in Divine Love. We can see that in this

Categories: sufi, earth, green, islamic, rights,
Form: Epigram

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
Started on Oct. 26, 2020

You know?
Being a microtubular cosmontologically proto-conscious
goofy sufi dervish,
"I have a dream" too. 

I tell the truth & nothing but these dream-imagined truths, 
under the penalty of perjury.
So

Categories: sufi, creation, destiny, imagination, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Rumi Translation: Birdsong

Birdsong
by Rumi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Birdsong relieves
my deepest griefs:
now I'm just as ecstatic as they,
but with nothing to say!
Please universe,
rehearse
your poetry
through me!



I choose to love you in silence
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I choose to love you in silence
where there is no rejection;

to possess you in loneliness
where you are mine alone;

to adore you

Categories: sufi, bird, music, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse

Infectious By Hafiz

Infectious!
by Hafiz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I became infected with happiness tonight
as I wandered idly, singing in the starlight.
Now I'm wonderfully contagious—
so kiss me!

Categories: sufi, stars,
Form: Epigram

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 bit in November and December of 2014, while “traveling” in Arizona and New Mexico.

By: Moji Agha

Sufi Monk Credentialing

Late this afternoon 
a self-proclaimed “Sufi Monk” 
was seeking to dis-cover 
further stations

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 losing my existence 
As I am a wind
Or a particle of sand
Or a Dandelion seed flying in the air
In a Sufi (mystical) flight
I am a soul in luminous Twilight
The whole

Categories: sufi, god, journey, religious, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Sufi Said

One Sufi said I AM
and was killed for it
one psychologist said about 
God
"I don't believe, I know"
And was praised for it
yet both were uttering the 
same meaning 
it is not just about formal 
dogma such as Salat or
prayer 
Those are of course fine
and a must
but going through ife 
with just that is just 
walking for

Categories: sufi, allegory
Form: Free verse