Proud-pied April: Change rooms in your mind

As a culture, Persia has given us a good number of poets. Omar Kayyam, Rumi and a whole flock of others, including the one for today, a 15^th Century writer known as Hafiz.

A common theme for these poets is love, in all its complexities. Hafiz is no exception. For example:

“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.