“5” Persian and Sufi influenced poems

Heedfully glowing of embers gently, vying.
“O” tyrannies of love burn endlessly, undying...
“O” dervish men dance and sing all—afire!
The way of love lies in thy self-denying/nothing.

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Love must not blunder or be blinded out of sight
As can the moth flitting gaily into the moons, light.
Drunken in the highest ecstasies of love, the
All-pervasive vision, we seek, and ...expedite!

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Does god somehow refract, where evils forage.
Does his wine cup reflect a dishonest beverage?
If not what need “I” fear a trickster’s free-will
Just lend me the courage the cartridge to kill
The “self” who remains: Ungrateful, even still.

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The locust is a being of cognizant thought
Gathered on the wind; slain into nought.
He but a mouth, ever fed does ever feed
Oasis’s mirage, his many mirrored cohorts.

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Who so can manifest those eyes of heaven?
And annihilate, these numberless, days of seven.
Who “love “most speaks clearly, shines his lamp
Permitting, I, a drunkard moth to enter his tavern.