The Throne Perpendicular To All That Is Horizontal

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
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Page : 152 pages
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Release : 2014-04-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578140520

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The Throne Perpendicular to All that is Horizontal by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

We're born in a relationship with theology. Nurtured in the womb by other than our means, born into the world at large, at very large, from our meditative seclusion, our khalwa, the Arabic for spiritual retreat (often practiced in a closet-like room just enough for a devotee to sit comfortably) we emerge into a theological world, willy-nilly. As soon as we take a breath of worldly oxygen we're in a tight relationship with the whole God-system, as believers or non-believers, until our last breath leaves us. So in the title, it's a Throne that is perpendicular, at an always angle, to all that is in our and all worlds, while still being "seated" (only "as it were") within it, and Allah "seated" upon it. And this is our present and ever-present reality, in all its manifestations. It's a way of seeing and a way of being, and everyone down to the minutest mouse, is in "theological" relation to it. Oh, that feather floating through the air, and that ant at the water drain! Yes, you there... you too!

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578071459

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Sparks Off the Main Strike / Poems by Daniel Abdal Moore Pdf

In all the poems of a poet's work there's the impulse to get to the bottom of things, to the original energy pulse, the first cause as it manifests in the present tense, the spark off the main strike. As always, the title came to me first, and the poems followed, some faithful some astray from the theme, but always rebounding back again to resonate with that original strike, in these scattered sparks.

Author : Daniel Abdal Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : 131 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578046778

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A Maddening Disregard for the Passage of Time / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

A MADDENING DISREGARD FOR THE PASSAGE OF TIME: While we are indeed born into time, and at death we slide out of time altogether into eternity, in whatever space we might conceive, in a supreme moment we might taste timelessness, fleeting though it may be (though that fleetingness too being still only a matter of time). But there are also those whose "disregard" of the passing of time is due to their absorption in Eternity, and The Eternal One.

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : 135 pages
File Size : 40,7 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-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : 165 pages
File Size : 42,7 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-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578049052

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Stretched Out on Amethysts / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

Poems of ecstatic movement, longing, glimpses and glimmers of the divine reality of our existence: Not a moment can be squandered / not a moment can be lost // Grab the rope and swing out / over the abyss // "What rope?" you say / when there are / ropes all around us // dangling at our elbows and lying in / coils at our feet // But invisible to our visible eyes // Our eyes must quit the visible / to see them

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780578061160

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Invention of the Wheel / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

These poems consider (sometimes wildly) the inventions that are our lives, and their Inventor, the Divine Fashioner of ourselves and our actions, with passionate imagination, surreal humor, and abiding focus and love for that Fashioner, in all His manifestations.

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780578076089

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In Constant Incandescence / Poems by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore Pdf

Try to describe light and it's hopeless/ Nothing can quite catch in words luminous nothingness/ Hold something up in light and it's revealed in it say a/ miniature Easter Island head now brought out in its/ full strangeness by the surrounding illumination/ But how can you hold up something like light in light and hope to achieve/ the thing the flash the flat surrounding splashy airiness of brightness/ in whose beneficence everything/ including us is revealed?...