Peter Lucas Hulen

• hulenp@wabash.edu      

Hafiz

• R U M I
  • The Worm's Waking
  • The Guest House
  • The Waterwheel
  • This We Have Now
  • The Sunrise Ruby
  • I Have Such a Teacher
  • Only Breath
  • The Arc of Your Mallet
  • Come to the Orchard in Spring
  • Say I Am You
• H A F I Z
  • The Sun Never Says
  • When You Can Endure
  • If You Don't Stop That
  • Some of the Planets are Hosting
  • For Three Days
• K A B I R
  • Take a Pitcher
  • While You Are Alive
  • Wake Up
  • What You Have Lived Through
  • The Breath Inside the Breath
  • It Was Inside
  • It Still Holds On
  • A Secret One Inside
  • Inside the Body

WHEN YOU CAN ENDURE When The words stop And you can endure the silence That reveals your heart's Pain Of emptiness Or that great wrenching-sweet longing, That is the time to try and listen To what the Beloved's Eyes Most want To Say.

Daniel Ladinsky, Tr., The Gift: poems by Hafiz the great Sufi master (New York: Penguin, 1999)