Holiday From The Perfect Crime Poems

Author : Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578082936

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Holiday from the Perfect Crime / Poems by Daniel Abdal Moore Pdf

Somehow the resonance for me during the entertaining of this title as an abiding albeit background theme for the poems, was the perfect crime of our existence: perfect because created by a perfect Creator. A crime because we get up to such malfeasance all the time, at the lower end of it, and a crime at the higher end in the sense that the Sufis often mention, that any existence of theirs before Allah ta'ala, any flake or residue of their self-ness, is a crime, a flaw, an obstruction before the Light of God. Only when you have known a saint (wali) of whatever spiritual practice do you the sense of a personality honed to its finest before the divine consciousness, whose actions and words and thoughts are soaked in divinity to such a degree that the person is truly human in its essence and effaced before God in His ever-present and infinitely Merciful activity.

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578025698

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The Perfect Orchestra / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

I'm not sure why anyone would want to undergo spiritual training, the rigors and difficulties of a path of spiritual discipline, except to reach a state of enlightenment. And I'm not sure that the state of enlightenment would be one of grim survival, or a harsh stoicism after all the exhausting rigors, but rather a joyful and constant perception of the simultaneous multifariousness of all things, and the single Divine core around which we all endlessly circulate'¦ The Perfect Orchestra of the Real. This world's natural light is supernatural light, and even when shining on the discordant, radiates calm, back to the central chord, the tonally harmonic resolution that laps throughout the universe as well as through us, end to end, and back again.

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578143354

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Some / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

Sufi poems from the love-ocean, washing at the shores of this world and the next, with God willing a depth charge or two to find new love grottos, new heights in underwater drownings, new depths in aerial flights. Contradictions? As Walt Whitman said, "Do I contradict myself? Yes, I contradict myself! I contain multitudes." And if we rub the self to its tissue-thin reality, God's Light shines more thoroughly through.

Author : Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578092461

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Ramadan Is Burnished Sunlight / Poems 2011 by Daniel Abdal Moore Pdf

This is a series of imagistic and light-drenched poems written each day or night of the fast of Ramadan, 2011, here presented in consecutive order as they came. Their purpose: to get nearer...

Author : Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578088914

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The Puzzle / Poems by Daniel Abdal Moore Pdf

A grand outgoing, heading directly into the puzzlement, the puzzle, puzzling it all out... Poems of search and devotion to the One, through labyrinthine manifestations... self and its various sheddings.

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578120225

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Next Life / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

There are among us luminous beings who maintain that what we might taste of the Garden of Paradise and what we might suffer of the Fire of Hell is right here in our present earthly and mortal existence as well. The imaginal truth of the Spiritual Path that points to the Next World after death is perhaps indisputable (however some might vigorously dispute it) but our lives, upon reflection, sometimes thrown overboard and barely making it to shore, sometimes buoyed up very high and slammed down very low and hard, are a living proof of the this-world tasting of the Next World experience...

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578106786

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Blood Songs / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

.".".The look of love death has on its face and in its fathomless eyes as behind the burning irises legions upon legions of angels file up and down a spiraling staircase carrying love-notes and bringing back blessings and reprieves..."" I'm really not sure why this particular collection of my poems is called Blood Songs, the title it has had since beginning the first poem of the book written in October of 2000, and though, as with other titles of mine, not necessarily threading a theme throughout, yet the title stands notwithstanding... and so it stands.

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Sufi poetry
ISBN : 9780578146379

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Facing Mecca / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

As Muslims who pray the five obligatory prayers each day of our lives, when able we orient ourselves toward Mecca, located in what is now Saudi Arabia, from wherever we happen to find ourselves, farflung in some island fastness, or out in desert dunes, or in a New York hotel room. There are boat people who tie up and face Mecca right in their boats, saintly Moroccan merchants who fling their carpets down just behind the counter where they sell embroidery thread to very particular customers (I am a witness). We can't get too "far out" when we stop to face Mecca five times and more a day, or in the solitude of our nights, knowing the plumb line goes straight through to the next world, and its rising to the holy heights.

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578142241

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The Soul's Home / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

This collection from 2013 continues the intended trajectory of a lifetime's work that celebrates and posits the direct perception that The Divine Reality faces us from everywhere and in literally every circumstance of each moment of our lives. In this, the world's soul envelope has been turned inside out, revealing itself in images of light. Rather than invoking metaphors for experience, my project has been to "move from the word as symbol toward the word as reality" (as W.C. Williams said about the poetry of Ezra Pound), words not standing for an already completed experience, physical or spiritual, but in the act of writing itself revealing the core, the poem's very details being in themselves the experience, between seen and unseen, with transitive imagination the active aesthetic practice, as much as Allah inspires and allows.

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578109190

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The Crown of Creation / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

This poem was suggested in a flash by a paragraph in Michael McClure's book, "Scratching the Beat Surface," in which he quotes Ernst Haekel in the words used here as an epigraph, "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." He goes on to say, in explanation, "Haekel meant that the individual, in his growth from meeting of sperm and ovum at conception, lives out, in fetus, the growth and evolution of his tribe; that first he is an amoeba, then a colonial organism, then an invertebrate, then a lancet, then a fish, until at last he is a mammal and a human." Reading this brought together for me various strands of thought into one clear picture, in harmony with the cosmological picture of the Muslim saints: "Man is a little cosmos, the cosmos is a big man." And the view that Allah created the entire creation as a setting, as it were, into which He placed man, the jewel, the perfect diamond, as the seal and culmination of this creation. ________________________________________________

Author : Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578085128

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The Caged Bear Spies the Angel / Poems by Daniel Abdal Moore Pdf

The luster of a glisten is/enough to elicit bliss//The gleam from a beam/enough to confound the intellect//The crack of a rock in a creek/can take us back to where//we lost track//The whiff of a sniff can lift/even the most morose heart//from the hotbed of heartbreak//All these phenomena/splinter and splatter in//this world to focus from the/unseen world onto this one//some hint of the high rainbowing/laughter to come...

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578148106

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Eternity Shimmers / Time Holds its Breath / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

Eternity shimmers in the room among the bright solid furniture that is the furniture of Eternity the bookcases and lamps the bed I wake from and the sound of the silence here that is its child the swirling ocean of time washing us in its blessings in constant motion of cylinder within cylinder of intangible turning invisible to the touch in which we age minute by minute inwardly forward but motionless in Eternity impossible to calculate except in angelic terms whose bright silver dazzles the mind beyond its usual earthly limitations whose walls and doors and streets and skies are sweetly blasted apart by the dimensions of Eternity and we live in it unbeknownst to us else we'd faint at the pure nothingness we are and God's Magnificence always facing us beyond even Eternity's confines and paltry measurements to show us anything but His resplendent Face in absolutely everything that is in its instant of being

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578163604

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The Sound of Geese Over the House / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

The sound of geese over the house and in the house the prayer on the Prophet The sound of geese over the house and in the house Allah loves you The mountains are full of light and their gigantic shadows are eloquent since they're leaning against the sky and out into space with their crags and outcrops No sound can scale in a dimension commensurate with the pure expanse of it The sound of geese over the house puts a dome of life above us and a sea of life below us and a world of life all around us and a shaft of living Light inside us

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780578125602

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A Hundred Little 3D Pictures / Poetry by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780615163086

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Cooked Oranges / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

Poetic inspiration continues to be a mystery to me, but I am its deep advocate, and hold to its irrational and shady acreage like a greedy real estate developer gazing out over the possibilities (a ramshackle hut here, a barn there, a castle with a lake yonder...). Is it angels, djinn, my black cat curled at the bottom of my bed while I'm hot in composition mode? My "unconscious," "God Consciousness?" (my fervent prayer).