Tag: Prayer

  • Monday Prayer

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise — Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise — We who dwell in the true ecstasy can forget their vase-tamed bouquet. In our hall of mirrors, the map of the one Face appears As the sun’s splendor would spangle a world made of dew.…

  • Sunday Prayer

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    SHE IS THE CREATOR There’s a tradition that Muhammad said, “A wise man will listen and be led by a woman, while an ignorant man will not. “Someone too fiercely drawn by animal urges lacks kindness and the gentle affections that keep men human. Anger and sharp desiring are animal qualities. A loving tenderness toward…

  • Monday Prayer

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    Please Accept My Condo Her cell phone cut my deepest sympathies short. The fault of a patchy connection, she guessed, when she showed me days later and we laughed off our faces at my truncated text. I didn’t know her adequately to ask who she’d lost; we were barely close enough to suffer a telecommunicational…