This piece of ground that I have cultivated with much sweat
Yields me a harvest of straw with no ears of golden wheat.
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No one knows the pain of stone—its dull dream and slow lust.
Yet this is the halfway stage from man to singing dust.
Click here to read the full ghazal #146 and commentary.
All lovers are poets: only some have voices and some do not.
They are the Life-tree’s sap thrusting beyond materialism’s rot.
Click here to read the full ghazal #147 and commentary.
Since I cannot remember one moment of my immense journey,
Time is an aberrative viewpoint having no reality.
Click here to read the full ghazal #148 and commentary.
When the sun flew his flag from my house-top, the bird of my throat
Soared aloft into the empty morning on its wildest note.
Click here to read the full ghazal #149 and commentary.
There will come the day when I shall go forth in love and trust
As a bride to my Lord Myself’s house in the Street of Dust.
Click here to read the full ghazal #150 and commentary.
The eternal Beloved, Avatar Meher Baba, over the years I was with him at Meherazad gave me the shape and content of these poems. The form is based on the Persian ghazal, perfected by Hafiz 600 years ago and carried down in the Urdu language to the present day. The content is the relationship between […]
In this section we focus on this remarkable last collection of Brabazon’s poetry. It was published posthumously in 1988 …
The young banana plants are birds with green wings rising from the ground;
Such was my spirit when I still thought that beloved God could still be found.
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