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[ghazalah]

For Stephen, following Jack

Elegance

It
Is not easy
To stop thinking ill
Of others.

Usually one must enter into a friendship
With a person

Who has accomplished that great feat himself.
Then

Something
Might start to rub off on you
Of that

True
Elegance.

--Hafiz

Comments

[ghazalah]

*hands you one of Stephen's hankies*

Can you believe that poem was written in the 1300s? But Hafiz has that crystalline quality like you say: simple, compact, and refracts a rainbow of color.

Stephen needs Jack's purity like any other of his drugs.

[ghazalah]

:-) *smooch*

[tuilelindowen]

I can't tell you what a resting place your journal has been for me as I read through the books. Thank you so much for everything.

[ghazalah]

:-) I'm glad!

What book are you on? I'm taking a breather before The Surgeon's Mate, because I have a feeling that the surgeon's mate isn't going to be me.

[tuilelindowen]

I am on The Hundred Days (number 19 -- one more to go). Didn't get the notice about your post until today (Aug. 3). Slooow LJ!

[esteven]

This poem still shines so brilliantly after these hundreds of years. And it is so much Jack and Stephen.
Thank you for sharing it.I am always amazed where you find all the beautiful poems you have shared with us.
btw,I had already missed your entries

[ghazalah]

...and I'm always amazed that people want to read them, the secret obsessions of my soul... ;-) I'm so pleased that you enjoy them.

Doesn't it just sparkle? Jack must sparkle like that, in Stephen's eyes. The clarity.

[juliebeth]

Marvelous, simply marvelous. And so true.

[ghazalah]

Know what I thought of? That scene in Lawrence of Arabia after the massacre, where Lawrence stumbles after Ali... lost, dazed, shamed, stumbling after Ali's strong life, needing him.

[muccamukk]

Beautiful doesn't seem to cover it. That's why we need poems, words are inadequate.

I'm glad that Jack does seem to be rubbing off on Stephen (though the first thing to spread was a tendancy towards bad puns :-/)

[ghazalah]

Cur-tailed. Agh! :-D

Poems and music.