I’ve got art’s writers in my joints
Why did the retina detach? It had avoidant personality disorder
Why did I get migraine in my heart? Because I had not got  the head for it
Why did my artery spasm?  The heart has its reasons; the arteries we don’t know.
Apparently my heart has become the holy grill
I can still fear angels
Why did I write this nonsense? I envy Lear
Why did Lewis Carroll?
Do you like nonsense? I do.

She’s got  foot in mouth disease.
The doctor says I have got weasels,
Then she got harlot’s fever and went  out blazing
Men get about or is it stout?
It’s chick and fox
Do you really believe in Flu?
My sister had  onion surgery last year  and she still weeps.
She said she feels cogitated all night so I let  her learn Boolean logic
I don’t want a mare tonight.I am married.
Why do we scheme unconsciously?
Was it entirely hands in glove?
I’ve gone mad and fallen in love.My husband  had called  for release.
Housewives knees are often a nuisance.Why not remove them>

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mostlymuslim/2017/11/fighting-stigma-mental-illness-story-muslim/

“When my children left home, I became an artist again at the encouragement of my eldest son. I did write for magazines and newspapers while they were growing up, but I did not do artwork. It was only after the death of my father, as a way to deal with my grief, that I decided to stand up on my own to feet and paint after so many years. I had a mentor and with his help, I managed to have my first show and began to exhibit. I also joined artist groups and the local Interfaith Council.””

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170109-the-mystical-poet-who-can-help-you-lead-a-better-life

“Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (c. 1320-1389) is one of the most beloved poets of the Persians [Iranians}, and is considered by many – from different cultures – to be one of the seven literary wonders of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe both agreed. As Emerson said of Hafiz: “He fears nothing. He sees too far, he sees throughout; such is the only man I wish to see or be.” And Emerson gave Hafiz that grand and famous compliment, “Hafiz is a poet for poets.”

Hafiz has no peer – Goethe

Both Goethe and Emerson translated Hafiz. And after Geothe’s deep study of him, simply – though remarkably – stated, “Hafiz has no peer.”

Hafiz poems were also admired by such diverse notables as Nietzsche and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose wonderful character Sherlock Holmes quotes Hafiz. Garcia Lorca praised the Sufi poet. Johannes Brahms was so touched by his verse he used several in his compositions. And even Queen Victoria was said to have consulted Hafiz in times of need – which has been a custom in the Middle East for centuries.  The Fal-e Hafiz, is an ancient tradition in which a reader asks Hafiz for advice when facing a difficulty or at an important juncture in their life – treating his books as an oracle and opening them with a deep wish from their soul for guidance.

The range of Hafiz is indeed stunning and provocative at times:

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath
moves through – listen to this music.

Then this, from another poem,

Look at the smile on the Earth’s lips this
morning, she laid again with me last night!”