Dear Beloved

This page contains weekly updated poems I've been writing to Love and the Beloved. In the Sufi tradition, God or the Divine is experienced and worshiped as the Beloved who can be found in everything and everyone: in the eyes of a lover, a stranger, and in the currents of your own longing heart.

/Dear Beloved/
7 11, 2019

Think about it

By | November 7th, 2019|Courage, Poetry|0 Comments

Think about it, and think again:What story do you want to tell When night reveals the starry hemAround the silent cosmic well? What story do you want to weave Into its ever growing reach?A dream that lovers would conceive, A tale to learn, or one to teach? Make up the one you want to hear,Take extra care with [...]

15 06, 2019

Summer bargain

By | June 15th, 2019|Desire, Poetry|0 Comments

What keeps you, tell me, from falling madly and irrevocably in lovewith the world now that the roses and poppies have declared their silken tongues in plain sight for all to see with summer marching through the aisles not missing a single bargain forNothing is to be had againfor so little

14 06, 2018

Lust

By | June 14th, 2018|Love, Poetry|0 Comments

Lust is life remembering play, Shouting YES! when mind says pay First your dues to time and age Locked up in a golden cage Where each answer has its place In the homo sapiens race. Lust is going for the kill Every fear inducing pill Tries to feed me in the name Of unworthiness and [...]

22 01, 2018

Back to the garden

By | January 22nd, 2018|Love, Poetry|0 Comments

Back to the garden, back to the source, Back to the only desirable force Love calls to witness all daughters and sons Held in the infinite arms of the One. Back to the forum, back to the ring, Back to the pendulum's perpetual swing Drawing us closer, then drawing us back In constant pull twixt [...]

4 10, 2017

Call this a good day

By | October 4th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Call this a good day when both of your feet hit the ground Running in the morning through the have and to do's tipped with the luxury of bemoaning as you wish for as long as you remember the spent kisses of your footprints never to return to the Same spot where you landed with [...]

25 08, 2017

Love was and will always be

By | August 25th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Love was and will always be Man's most puzzling mystery Spinning lovers' foolish heads When they think they'll win their bets Once Love has been legalized Spelled out, signed, and itemized None of which Love understands For Love wants our reverence Wants us daily on our knees Known alone in mysteries

10 07, 2017

Midsummer Night’s Dream

By | July 10th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

1 Surely, this would be the end the moment where the Light would escape my cells into the Indescribable Final Frame My heart a shooting star for new lovers to remember If it couldn't hold any longer onto the singing rivers but it is not so Not so still I am Counting what time has [...]

14 06, 2017

Create me in your image

By | June 14th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Create me in your image, make me you want to see inside my soul script's lineage binary answer key. Express me in your language, spell words in make believe so limitations languish as magic is conceived. Imprint your code of armor in strokes beneath my skin, ignite your highest dharma in me, your threefold twin.

8 06, 2017

Single bargain

By | June 8th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

What keeps you, tell me, from falling madly and irrevocably in love With the world now That the roses and poppies have declared their silken tongues in plain sight for all to see with summer Marching through the aisles not missing a single bargain for Nothing is to be had again For so little

18 05, 2017

Each blessed morning

By | May 18th, 2017|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Each blessed morning opens new the page to Love's transmogrifying multicolored stage: Calls me to the purple oak Ravens jet black shining coat Ferns green fingered stubborn vote Chariots setting sun's red throat Eyes blue saturating hues sinking into mine to fuse Colors textures smells tastes sounds into Love's white allsurround Which is where I [...]