Sea of Serenity Painting by Freydoon Rassouli

You Don't Have To Act Crazy Anymore We all know you were good at that. Now retire, my dear, From all that hard work you do Of bringing pain to your sweet eyes and heart. Look in a clear mountain mirror - See the Beautiful Ancient Warrior And the Divine elements You always carry inside That infused this Universe with sacred Life So long ago And join you Eternally With all Existence - with God! Hafiz

More of this combination of artwork and poetry can be found HERE. I Heard God Laughing - Hafiz works selected from Hafiz, a Yahoo group providing daily samples of the poetry of Hafiz (‘memorizer’), a poet-saint who lived in Shiraz, Iran in the fourteenth century. All translations by Daniel Landinsky from: "The Gift" & "I Heard God Laughing"

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