Ingredients

More about Ingredients

You carry
all of the ingredients
to make a nightmare
of your life,
to ride that horse
to the end
of time
in fear, anxiety
and misery.

Don't Mix Them!

You carry
all of the ingredients
to make a swing
to carry you and
your deepest, most
Loved Hopes, Dreams
and Wishes to the
Heavens Above,
and back to earth
again, to Bring About
Laughter, Love
and Beauty down
to the Ground of
Your BEing,
and to gather your
Family and Friends
in a celebration
of Life.

Mix Them!

Invite me
to this
Celebration.
I will bring
My Divine
Musical Golden
Instruments to Add
to Your Ingredients,
to Lighten and Brighten
this Swing of Life
that may carry us all into
Beauty and Celebration!

In response, and inspired by a poem within the book, THE GIFT, Poems by HAFIZ, The Great Sufi Master, Translations by Daniel Ladinsky.

Certainly not to say I am a master or even an apprentice in any way of poetry or mystical insight—all is simply a creative endeavor to see what my own mind and heart may say of the poem, to try and put it into my own words, or simply to respond to the ideas set forth by HAFIZ, and translated by Daniel.

(My apologies, this footnote will be repeated as I intend, at least presently, to continue in this mode for awhile. I am quite curious how AI will interpret things and how I may work and play, tweek words and such to perhaps change the direction AI is taking, in the end, hopefully to make a dream worthwhile sharing.)