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Ghazal #265, Divan-e-Hafez, Khanlari

Posted on May 30, 2017 by bill gannett

درد عشقی کشیده ام که مپرس درد هجری چشیده ام که مپرس I have suffered such pain of love- don’t ask! I have drunk the dregs of such separation- don’t ask! I have wandered the world to embrace at last … Continue reading →

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Ghazal #15, from Ghazals For The Friend

Posted on May 19, 2017 by bill gannett
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Mother Kali is beautiful and ferocious beyond belief

Posted on May 14, 2017 by bill gannett

  Kali is beautiful and ferocious beyond belief; Approach her as a lover, and you will know soon enough! Kali is not a mother who preserves the status quo; She loves to destroy all that impedes her creative flow. Kali … Continue reading →

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Saudi Arabian and Israeli Thanatos

Posted on May 12, 2017 by bill gannett

“The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totaling more than $100bn, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of Donald Trump’s planned visit to Riyadh. The official, who spoke … Continue reading →

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Trump the fall guy for our broken democracy

Posted on May 10, 2017 by bill gannett

How long do we have to retch over the Baby Trump presidency, over our broken democracy? He has fired his FBI baby sitter, the feckless Comey, so he can sling shit with yet greater abandon. What’s new? Congress could not care … Continue reading →

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What is sufism, and who is a sufi?

Posted on May 7, 2017 by bill gannett

What is sufism, and who is a sufi? Sufism is historically identified with Islam as its esoteric and mystical dimension, based on a spiritual lineage that can be traced back to the Prophet Muhammad. Thus a sufi is (almost always) … Continue reading →

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All I know is what I read in the bogus news

Posted on April 30, 2017 by bill gannett

All I know is what I read in the bogus news: this world and the next belong to Zionist Jews. The jihadist will survive with bomb sewn in belly, in new-found paradise graced with petroleum jelly. Righteous Hindu will live … Continue reading →

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The black snake winds around the Missouri

Posted on April 29, 2017 by bill gannett

The black snake winds around the Missouri and chokes the Sioux Nation with misery. Black venom slithers across sacred land, but Water Protectors make a last stand. Bullets and burning gas- grenades explode; Big Fist shoots water canon in bitter … Continue reading →

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Ghazal #89 from Ghazals For The Friend

Posted on April 22, 2017 by bill gannett

Drunk or smashed is all the same to our clear and sober mind; the Friend’s name opens the heart’s eye and makes it to all else blind! We swear we have no gods but fall prostrate at your pure feet: … Continue reading →

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“I am not the body…” Avatar Meher Baba

Posted on April 11, 2017 by bill gannett

” I am not the body. I am not the mind. I am not this. I am not that. I am nothing but a living lie of that truth that is me and unless the lie is dead the truth … Continue reading →

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