More eye poems and quotes…


A collection from Hafiz of Shiraz:


WITH THAT MOON LANGUAGE

Admit something:

Everyone you see
You say to them, "Love me."

Of course you do not do this out loud;
Otherwise,
Someone would call the cops.

Still though, think about this,
This great pull in us
To connect.

Why not become the one
Who lives with a full moon in each eye
That is always saying,

With that sweet moon
Language,

What every other eye in this world
Is dying to
Hear.


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WHATEVER YOU REALLY SEE

A human being is essentially
A spirit eye.

Whatever you really see
You are that.


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NEEDING A MIRROR

Your
Eye
Is so wise

It keeps turning, turning
Needing to touch
Beauty.

It keeps turning
Needing to find a mirror

That
Will caress you

As I.


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BEHND EACH EYE

Behind each eye
Spring overall.
But inside us
There is another unity.
Behind each eye
One glowing weather.


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THAT SHAPES THE EYE

Children
Can easily open the
Drawer
That lets the spirit rise up and wear
Its favorite costume of
Mirth and laughter.

When the mind is consumed with
Remembrance of
Him
Something divine happens to the
Heart
That
Shapes the hand and tongue
And eye into
The word
Love.


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A ROOT IN EACH ACT AND CREATURE

The sun's eyes are painting fields again.

Its lashes with expert strokes
Are sweeping across the land.

A great palette of light has embraced
This earth.

Hafiz, if just a little clay and water
Mixed in His bowl
Can yield such exquisite scents, sights,
Music - whirling forms -

What unspeakable wonders must await with
The commencement of unfolding
Of the infinite number of petals
That are the
Soul.

What excitement will renew your body
When we all begin to see
That His heart resides in
Everything?

God has a root in each act and creature
That He draws His mysterious
Divine life from.

His eyes are painting fields again.

The Beloved with His own hands is tending
Raising like a precious child,
Himself in
You.


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Quotes from Emerson:


People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.


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Some eyes threaten like a loaded and leveled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.


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To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.


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When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.


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Eyes are bold as lions--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

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