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2 thoughts on “Hafiz – 6”
Love me some Hafiz. Every day. So, among the various translations that Ladinsky has done is A Year With Hafiz. I’ve got that in hard copy and downloaded to my iPhone so that I can read the daily selections wherever I am. My students playfully roll their eyes when I mention Hafiz: they’ve heard him so often. Here’s one of my favorites which hung on my classroom wall this year:
“Last night God posted on the tavern wall a hard decree for all of love’s inmates which read:
If your heart can not find a joyful work, then the jaws of this world will probably grab hold of your–sweet ass.”
That’s Danny. But that kind of language, though I don’t know Persian, seems to convey Hafiz better. I just wish I had the time to read more. Oh well.
The cool thing about that poem there is that we now have the extraordinary option of making our work, in fact, joyful, where it seemed, in my world at least, for decades, that I had chosen the wrong job.
I chose the right job, just the wrong way to do it. Thank you again, Susan Gross, for enlightening me. And thank you Bob for this poem and keep sending them.
And thank you Hafiz, for your poetry. Like the work of all the really great poets, it uplifts and reminds us about what counts. May we, following your lead, create some poetry of our own in our classrooms.