Ghazals For The Friend
-
Recent Posts
- What is science?
- The more you love, the less you understand
- When all good has died, and begins to rot
- Avatar Meher Baba’s warning to the US more relevant than ever
- How to read Avatar Meher Baba’s books and statements
- Avatar Meher Baba On War
- Big Fist will appoint a new hatchet for carnage
- Rahu and AI
- Big Fist has come to rule our hearts and minds
- Where have all the souls come from?
- Modi’s government’s attack on Meherabad
- How Green is Green Energy?
- Karma Vs. Dharma
- Making sense of politics…
- Yet more thoughts on AI, the Machine Age, aka the Kali Yuga
- More thoughts on AI
- Some thoughts on AI
- All I love is described by the fleeting light of sunset
- Triumph of the capitalist neocon.
- What is politics?
Categories
- articles and notes (106)
- astrology (7)
- cosmological essays (7)
- guest contributions (4)
- imaginary conversations (3)
- Kabir in translation (1)
- Letters to AMBPPCT (22)
- my own poetry (379)
- english language ghazals (266)
- quatrains (71)
- Nostradamus speaks… (9)
- quatrains translated from Rumi (60)
- Rant (36)
- rend, rendi (11)
- reviews (13)
- ripostes (28)
- translations from divan-e-hafez (89)
- translations from divan-e-hafez, revised with rhyme (9)
- translations from the divan-e-shams-e-tabrizi (2)
- video (8)
- Wikidpedia (12)
Archives
Meta
Author Archives: bill gannett
The wind of the Word blows
The wind of the Word blows out of Love Street and goes where it wills with delight; how sweet the scent of Rose!
Posted in quatrains
Comments Off on The wind of the Word blows
Don’t think for a moment that God does not hear your prayer
Don’t think for a moment that God does not hear your prayer- his answer lies in the anguish that only patient love can bear. It’s a rough road to crawl and crawl to the feet of the Friend when the broken … Continue reading
Posted in english language ghazals
Comments Off on Don’t think for a moment that God does not hear your prayer
“Ghazals For The Friend” wins Amazon Best Poetry Book of 2014 Award!
“Ghazals For The Friend” wins Amazon Best Poetry Book of 2014 Award!!!!!! Update, 11/22/2014: This astonishing news may be either a hoax or a fantastic mistake. Jeff Bezos won’t answer my repeated phone calls. Stay tuned. Update, 12/1/2014: I … Continue reading
Posted in ripostes
2 Comments
An Interpretation of The Ten States of God as explained in God Speaks, by Meher Baba.
1) God in the Beyond Beyond State: God’s Essence- the infinite Divine Vacuum, about which nothing can be said that is not at once refuted. 2) God in the Beyond State: God could not help himself in his infinitely tranquil … Continue reading
Posted in articles and notes, cosmological essays, reviews
Comments Off on An Interpretation of The Ten States of God as explained in God Speaks, by Meher Baba.
News Flash- “Sacred Ground” Discovered!
Reports are trickling in to veteran reporter Darvish Khan that “sacred ground” has been discovered in and around Meherabad and Meherazad, India. This is not the first time that such assertions have been made, but now people are beginning to … Continue reading
Posted in Letters to AMBPPCT, Rant, ripostes
Comments Off on News Flash- “Sacred Ground” Discovered!
Guided Meditation
Breathe in Ba, breathe out ba. (Repeat until practice becomes automatic, even during sleep.)
Posted in ripostes
Comments Off on Guided Meditation
The world O the world a can full of lively worm
The world O the world a can full of lively worm, wriggling for spirit to attain at last perfect form. Man, at last, no more a wriggling worm, but aghast at nascent mind crawling through mud to speak, at last. … Continue reading
Posted in english language ghazals
Comments Off on The world O the world a can full of lively worm
Now is the time of the Prophet of Light’s return
Now is the time of the Prophet of Light’s return; Zarathustra will bring this Age of Iron to an end. Rama, prince of virtue crowned as the Solar King will again slay the dark rapacious lord and fiend. Now is … Continue reading
Posted in english language ghazals
Comments Off on Now is the time of the Prophet of Light’s return
An Open Letter to AMBPPCT re the “Memorial Spike” (4/20/2008)
An Open Letter to the Chairman and Board of Trustees of AMBPPCT; About two years ago I had occasion to write the Trust on the subject of the MPR and the poor planning process represented in that building project. I … Continue reading
Posted in Letters to AMBPPCT, ripostes
Comments Off on An Open Letter to AMBPPCT re the “Memorial Spike” (4/20/2008)
The light of his eyes kindles in my heart a flame
The light of his eyes kindles in my heart a flame, which I nurture with the breath of his holy name. This body is the alembic from which spirit rises and rises to condense and fall in shame. Millions of … Continue reading
Posted in english language ghazals
Comments Off on The light of his eyes kindles in my heart a flame