{"id":424,"date":"2017-03-09T19:23:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2017-03-09T19:23:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:23:30","slug":"beautiful-creature-by-hafiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Beautiful Creature&#8221; by Hafiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">There is a beautiful creature living<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">in a hole you have<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">dug,<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">so at night I set fruit and grains and little pots of wine and milk<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">beside your soft earthen <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">mounds,<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">and I often sing to you,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">but still, my dear, you do not come out.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">I have fallen in love with someone <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">who is hiding inside<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">of you.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">We should talk about this problem,<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">otherwise I will never<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times;\">leave you<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times;\">alone!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">from <em>Love Poems from God<\/em>. Published by Penguin Compass. Copyright \u00a9 2002 by Daniel Ladinsky, Ed.<\/span>\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>I love the playfulness in Hafiz, especially as translated by Daniel Ladinsky. There&#8217;s always a sense of longing in his poems, an affirmation of our desire for connection, which in itself is a lament.\u00a0 However, as in the poems of the Psalter, Hafiz always offers a hopeful reassurance of our belovedness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a beautiful creature living in a hole you have dug, so at night I set fruit and grains and little pots of wine and milk beside your soft earthen mounds, and I often sing to you, but still, my dear, you do not come out. I have fallen in love with someone who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Beautiful Creature&#8221; by Hafiz<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-for-contemplation","category-prayer","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}