The Filbert Street Steps, San Francisco.
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 watermark 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.
Hafiz poem "All the Hemispheres" from the book The Subject Tonight Is Love, translated by Daniel Ladinsky.
This photograph is a perfect accompaniment to the poem. Lovely selections, both.
Posted by: tangobaby | 23 June 2008 at 23:07
perfectly inspiring tara.. a gift for the fearful soul that resides inside of me on some daysxo
Posted by: robin bird | 23 June 2008 at 21:33
truly lovely ~ thank you so much for sharing this
Posted by: studio wellspring | 23 June 2008 at 18:32
The phone company legislation boggles my mind but this post is like an oasis in the midst of all the craziness in our world, Tara. Hugs from Denver, K.
Posted by: Karen DeGroot Carter | 22 June 2008 at 18:27
your site is amazing! i've just spent way too long here, but it was time well spent, for sure. and this is probably the dumbest thing i will say in at least three days, but...man, you're smart.
Posted by: karey m. | 22 June 2008 at 08:09
Ooooh, nice Hafiz.
Happy upcoming Sunday Tara!
xo
Posted by: Gillian | 22 June 2008 at 03:33
Your blog has a unique and interesting format. Lucky you to be in Paris!
Posted by: Lavinia Ladyslipper | 22 June 2008 at 02:59