{"id":1736,"date":"2016-02-12T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:58","slug":"friday-about-the-word-yes-hafezsufi-paul-christian-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/02\/12\/friday-about-the-word-yes-hafezsufi-paul-christian-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday — About the word “Yes” — Hafez\t(Sufi) & Paul (Christian)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, February 12, 2016 \u2014 Thank you, Morning Edition (NPR)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Driving home from an early shopping run, while ruminating about a poem for today, I listened to NPR\u2019s piece about the deep legacy of the Persian poet Hafez (c. 1325-c.1390), I was reminded December 2014 when I posted, side by side, two short, exquisite poems about saying \u201cyes.\u201d Back in December 8, 2014 I also paid attention to the pace of sunrises as they head south toward the winter solstice. This morning in the depths of February those early December thoughts about gloom and \u201cyes\u201d seem as apt as they did two Decembers ago.<\/p>\n

Enjoy the weekend. Enjoy these two short poems too.<\/p>\n

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john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post:<\/strong> {first posted Monday December 8, 2014} \u2013<\/p>\n

For years and years this passage from Paul\u2019s Second Letter to the Corinthians has stirred my soul. When I lose track of it for a time and find myself grinding away and looking at my life with sardonic know-it-all aloofness, and then think to treat these words like a poem again, the words turn me toward playful attentiveness and a grateful heart. Today, what led me to 2nd Corinthians was a weekly feed called \u201cA Year of Being Here.\u201d Readers of this list have benefitted from quite few poems that I met there. In this week\u2019s set of seven I found the 14th century Persian poet, Hafiz (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hafez<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Many people find that the stately procession of sunrises toward their northernmost Solstice point at the shortest day of the year wears on them, too many dim and dark minutes per day. Sometimes pockets of bright light from tight beam lamps help treat the dark as holy; but sometimes gloom settles in and saps the power of imagination. Poems like Paul\u2019s and Hafiz\u2019s help a lot.<\/p>\n

Days of darkness for sure; best watch your language and read the poems out loud.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

p.s. I used Paul\u2019s poem on the card we made for my father\u2019s funeral and then, 25 years later, for my mother\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post # 1 Hafiz \u201cEvery Movement\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I rarely let the word \u201cNo\u201d escape
\nFrom my mouth
\nBecause it is plain to my soul
\nThat God has shouted \u201cYes! Yes! Yes!\u201d
\nTo every luminous movement in existence.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post # 2 Paul \u201cAlways Yes\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Son of God,
\nThe Christ Jesus that we proclaimed among you . . .
\nwas never \u201cyes\u201d and \u201cno.\u201d
\nWith him it was always \u201cyes.\u201d
\nAnd however many the promises God has made,
\nThe \u201cYes\u201d to them all is in him.<\/p>\n

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