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We urge on our endeavor to conquer the world of the senses,
Confident as a horseman putting his mount at the fences.

Click here to read the full ghazal #82 and commentary.

I dwell in dust and sing, and my song is most sweet;
For although I lie prostrate I do not entreat.

Click here to read the full ghazal #83 and commentary.

God is all-merciful—but don’t expect from him
Kindness according to your own mind’s cut and trim.

Click here to read the full ghazal #84 and commentary.

The income from an industrial complex cannot buy
That which the meanest of God’s lovers obtains with one sigh.

Click here to read the full ghazal #85 and commentary.

Materialistic progress is our present Pharaoh;
But our Moses has come to demand, Let my people go.

Click here to read the full ghazal #86 and commentary.

Eyeless are we in Gaza, chained as slaves to the wheel
Of progress, with the threat of the bomb for our doom-seal.

Click here to read the full ghazal #87 and commentary.

We are the displaced persons of the world, the dispossessed
We present protests and complaints, but no wrongs are redressed.

Click here to read the full ghazal #88 and commentary.

We sat down by the River of Dust and made a new song
In praise of our Lord the Innkeeper whose wine is sweet and strong.

Click here to read the full ghazal #89 and commentary.

The destination of all roads is the wineshop door.
Some are direct expressways, some wind round the seashore.

Click here to read the full ghazal #90 and commentary.