baby ganesh bosses me about the day’s business;

baby ganesh bosses me about the day’s business;
she wisely corrects me with an elephantine fuss.

she is queen victoria who has taken birth again,
whose commands continue to bind me nonetheless.

rimpoche is an old yogi who meditates on hats:
she wears chicago bulls and sports devilish bliss.

i walk with her hand in hand to find the best cookie,
or suffer a fate awful, with her irate, and me remiss!

my name is boy-head in her inscrutable humor;
i protest, but have nothing to say about this!

michael jackson is her girlfriend now in heaven,
because she ate too much. she is so bad and cross!

darvish lives with a great devotee of the master:
each day, she gives mehera’s baba button a kiss.

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we have opened the door to our heart and let you in,

We have opened the door to our heart and let you in,
to find that we are the stranger and you are the friend.

Base desire has so clothed the mind, we have forgotten
our soul is beauty, but covered by clothes soiled and rotten.

The foul rags of the filthy mind are now so de jure,
we are loath to strip naked and all falsity abjure.

We have no hope of helping ourselves in this matter;
we so love our own modesty- ‘though it be in tatters!

Maybe a kind arsonist will douse us with petrol,
and swift courage will renounce pretension with vitriol?

Lord and master, forgive us for our dull stupidity,
that is only surpassed by our vain cupidity!

Darvish coyly glances at the beloved with a whim:
maybe he will hold his nose and completely undress him!

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at kailash, the axis of the world, live shiva and parvati;

at kailash, the axis of the world, live shiva and parvati;
the sweat from their loving falls as snow in pristine purity.

their meditation melts and flows as grace to fill the lake of mind,
which sustains the world with magic rivers compassionate and kind.

two great perfect masters, padmasambhava and milarepa,
remain bowed before this wondrous mountain of hidden shambhala.

the four faces of primordial kailash are sacramental:
blood ruby, solar gold, sky lapis lazuli and star crystal.

the wealth of this fierce mountain is spiritual and protective;
no man foolish enough to climb its sacred slopes will long survive.

o lucky pilgrim who circumambulates the foot of kailash-
by grace, mind surrenders to burning spirit and becomes pure ash!

darvish has heard that in the quiet of snowfall lit by moonlight,
one can hear faint cries of ecstasy that inspire divine delight!

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in our lost land of fast food and bad breath,

In our lost land of fast food and bad breath,
we pray for the rapture to bless our death!

Our resurrection will achieve liftoff.
we will look down on those below and scoff.

A mass ascension for the lucky few:
the refried christian and repentant jew.

The whole family will rise together,
to live with our holy father forever.

We will eat the wonder bread of heaven
and never have to take a shit again.

Our purity will grow and grow until,
we are satiated with divine swill.

Darvish does not want to witness and face
the grand implosion of such sweet grace!

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May the muddied waters clear to reveal your face;

May the muddied waters clear to reveal your face;
May the mirror be polished to reflect your grace.

The wretched mind always repeats the same mistake-
of forsaking the real and embracing the fake.

The desire of self-image is brick upon brick
of wants imprisoned in walls ugly and thick.

We worship pure fire for political reasons:
The tyranny of mind must be burnt as treason!

The cry of our heart is torture we can survive,
so long as when cut out, at your feet it thrives!

How long will the world turn on its rusty axis,
before it wobbles and falls upon our praxis?

Darvish is weary of revolving time without end;
He longs for the waters to clear and reveal the friend.

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This land is sacred because of the Master’s and Mehera’s blood

This land is sacred because of the Master’s and Mehera’s blood
anointing earth.  Splatters of grace will release a healing flood.

The violent promise of America blossomed as a bloodied rose,
and was offered as a tribute to genocide and enslaved Negroes.

The cult of the machine demanded the loveliest sacrifice,
and the energy of our greed exacted an ultimate price.

God-man’s body and his greatest love were smashed by the car:
the lust and anger of our greed will be redeemed by the Avatar.

This land will be convulsed by the pain of our cruel ignorance,
that will one day be healed by the lover’s and Beloved’s innocence.

Lord and Master, forgive us for we know not what will happen;
we had no idea that progress would result in such terrible sin!

Everywhere the earth is crying for the Eternal Beloved’s pain;
but the pride of man will not yet be humbled for mercy’s gain.

Darvish walks the earth and his feet feel the miraculous cry
of the insentient for the wounded beloved who never dies!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Your love is a sacred fire of eternal flame,

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We hunger for the shards of light flashing from your eye;

We hunger for the shards of light flashing from your eye;
May they wound our dark mind with brilliance until we die!

Who, if we cried, would hear us among the many gods?
The busy deities are such dull and slow-thinking clods.

One moment of your presence removes all spiritual doubt:
The sons and daughters of man stand and your praises shout!

We have no objection to the pious praying for us-
We are the proud scions of light illuminating dust!

Our lord and master is the beloved of lover’s lane;
We offer at his lovely feet all of our burning pain.

The candle flickering in the altar’s niche, is our spirit
Rising and prostrating with each inspired love-lyric.

Darvish has no thought or feeling left to shape into song:
The candle’s breath expires, and the flame to the Friend belongs.

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The dawn breeze brought news of the crying rend

The dawn breeze brought news of the crying rend:
He was all the night searching for the friend.

From bar to bar he stumbled with graphic speech;
No fool for long was beyond his wit’s reach!

The lover with long black hair he couldn’t find;
She was there teasing him, but he was blind.

Blind, blind drunk grasping for her in empty air,
Longing to run his fingers through her curly hair.

The scent of sandalwood was in his mind;
It is what the beloved wears when divine.

With wild and bloodshot eyes he looks for her;
He doesn’t care the world is a passing blur.

This dawn, the sound of the moaning lover,
Told darvish the rend’s pain wasn’t over.

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A thousand times we have inscribed paper with your glorious name,

A thousand times we have inscribed paper with your eternal name,
only to have shredded our efforts to praise you in bitter shame.

We long to sing glorious song that delights your grave expression,
and we cry to find the talent that intuits your intimations.

Beloved, it’s not easy having you as our perfect master;
all our efforts to please you are often a perfect disaster!

We need your help in developing a convincing argument,
as to why we should not be in need of perfect atonement!

We have more faith in your forgiveness and divine sense of humor,
than in our bungling acts of sincerity and uninspired stupor!

All the many songs we have written and have never sung to you,
are longing to be revised and rehearsed until pleasing and true.

Beloved, sharpen our wit and love into a pure ghazal:
have mercy on Darvish’s plea to light your face with real dazzle!

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