Saturday Sunshine

Here is a little Hafiz poem to brighten your day with a little

Saturday Sunshine

All the Hemispheres

 

 

Leave the familiar for a while.

Let your senses and bodies stretch out

 

Like a welcomed season

Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

 

Open up to the Roof.

Make a new water-mark on your excitement

And love.

 

Like a blooming night flower,

Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness

And giving

Upon our intimate assembly.

 

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

 

All the hemispheres in existence

Lie beside an equator

In your heart.

 

Greet Yourself

In your thousand other forms

As you mount the hidden tide and travel

Back home.

 

All the hemispheres in heaven

Are sitting around a fire

Chatting

 

While stitching themselves together

Into the Great Circle inside of

You.

 

 

From: ‘The Subject Tonight is Love’

Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

 

May you walk in beauty.