My Brilliant Image

a poem by Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky)

Jun 20, 2024

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Hafiz is one of my favorite poets. A Sufi mystic and ecstatic, he delights in surprising the reader with their own beauty, divinity, and light… and with God’s overwhelming love for each of us, despite our ugliness, profanity, and darkness.

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One day the sun admitted,
I am just a shadow.
I wish I could show you
The Infinite Incandescence
That has cast my b…

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