{"id":5254,"date":"2014-03-02T21:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T02:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=5254"},"modified":"2015-03-09T16:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T21:03:57","slug":"hafiz-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/02\/hafiz-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Hafiz Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In A Tree House<\/p>\n<p>Light<br \/>\nWill someday split you open<br \/>\nEven if your life is now a cage,<\/p>\n<p>For a divine seed, the crown of destiny,<br \/>\nIs hidden and sown on an ancient fertile plain<br \/>\nYou hold the title to.<\/p>\n<p>Love will surely bust you wide open<br \/>\nInto an unfettered, blooming new galaxy<\/p>\n<p>Even if your mind is now<br \/>\nA spoiled mule.<\/p>\n<p>A life giving radiance will come,<br \/>\nThe Friend&#8217;s gratuity will come &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>O look again within yourself,<br \/>\nFor I know you were once the elegant host<br \/>\nTo all the marvels in creation.<\/p>\n<p>From a sacred crevice in your body<br \/>\nA bow rises each night<br \/>\nAnd shoots your soul into God.<\/p>\n<p>Behold the Beautiful Drunk Singing One<br \/>\nFrom the lunar vantage point of love.<\/p>\n<p>He is conducting the affairs<br \/>\nOf the whole universe<\/p>\n<p>While throwing wild parties<br \/>\nIn a tree house &#8211; on a limb<br \/>\nIn your heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Worry is wasted life force <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/TWhFzEsr0g\">pic.twitter.com\/TWhFzEsr0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeepakChopra\/status\/574749781341249536\">March 9, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In A Tree House Light Will someday split you open Even if your life is now a cage, For a divine seed, the crown of destiny, Is hidden and sown on an ancient fertile plain You hold the title to. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/02\/hafiz-poems\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[419,429],"class_list":["post-5254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-hafiz","tag-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}