Before there was an Allah, there were her lips, breathing that tantalizing takbir, Before Medina’s boundaries were mapped, before the Cube’s dimension defined, there was her body, whose definition aroused desire, desire manifest as mapping. And before there was jihad, and before the myth of Eden, and before the creation, There was a universe of [...]
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Before and after
Posted in Love poems on May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sun Inscription
Posted in Love poems on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A little draft ditty I’m preparing for the Friends of Design. Unfortunately as its a draft you have to put up with my ugly monotone. sun inscription give up all sanction to me life’s addiction seen in through power of three my relation freedom aligned sacrosanct eternal repose while the currency of fiction’s within bank [...]
The Brothers
Posted in Love poems on October 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Midnight, the piano bar at the end of Time. The Matronita takes the stage and says: “Here’s a song dedicated to anyone out there who’s been heartbroken by an ummah.”
The Friends of Design: Apparition (live)
Posted in Love poems on September 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There is no love but the Love/the light is its slave and messenger. Another song taken from the Friend’s gig at the Richmix September 2011 Numbi.
The Friends of Design Cover Desmond and the RC
Posted in Love poems on September 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Performed at Richmix’s Numbi on the 17th of September 2011, an event coordinated by Kudu Arts (kuduarts.org). The Friends of Design are a unit within the Verandah Vanguard and Other Asias (otherasias.webnode.com), distributed by Fernmind Unilectic Press (fernmind.com). To really understand the meaning of these lyrics (and the essence of this blog), you must buy [...]
The Friends of Design: The Divisions of Love (live at Richmix)
Posted in Love poems on September 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, the psychic tones of Sally and the Friends, flittering, as always, between Meccan/southern oblivion and Medinan/northern glory, like a family tree or a Tengri-Ummai connection. Performed at Richmix’s Numbi on the 17th of September 2011, an event coordinated by Kudu Arts (kuduarts.org). The Friends of Design are a unit within the Verandah Vanguard and [...]
Ramadan Reading: Lanqan il Jorn
Posted in Love poems, Tailorite Tafsir, Teaching on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
During May, when the days are long, I admire the song of the birds from far away and when I have gone away from there I remember a love far away. I go scowling, with my head down so much that songs and hawthorn flowers aren’t better, to me, than the frozen Winter. Never shall [...]
The Friends of Design: “Appearance and Speculation”
Posted in Love poems on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Riots, races and unity
Posted in Love poems on August 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There is no Love but the Love. “We” are nothing but Love. When Love is divided, segmented into religions, tribes, races, we face hate, trauma, violence. Violence comes from a divided Love, and race is one of the most outwardly explicit ways to divide Love. So race is inextricably linked to violence: race is violence. [...]
The Overwhelming
Posted in Love poems on August 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
devious opposition spinning your web of hate it’s a systematic confrontation it’s a hideously strengthened fate then there’s soul spectrum of eyes running rainbow tangential day then there’s the comfort of unknowing speaking purity every way complicated supposition transference desert of weight it’s a logical confrontation it’s a cyclical purge of your delay those who [...]
