Zikr allah, 4th Saturday, 6/26, Zawiyya al Mu'min, 7:30 pm

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THE SNOW-WORLD MELTS

Think of the phoenix coming up out of ashes,

but not flying off.

For a moment we have form.

We can't see.

How can we be conscious and you be conscious

at the same time and separate?

Copper when an alchemist works on it loses its copper

qualities. Seeds in Spring

begin to be trees, no longer seed. Brushwood

put in the fire changes. The snow-world melts.

You step in my footprint and it's gone.

It's not that I've done anything to deserve

this attention from you. Predestination

and freewill: We can argue them,

but they're only ideas. What's real

is a presence, like Shams.

-- Version by Coleman Barks

"Open Secret"

Threshold Books, 1984

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What's real is a presence

How can we be conscious and you be conscious

at the same time and separate?

Please join the Columbus Sufi Circle

as we celebrate consciousness and presence

in song, in poems, in melting snow.

1000 Urlin Ave., Apt. 1507

Grandview Heights, Ohio 43212

Zikr at7:30 pm until 9 or so

followed by sweets and sohbet

For directions or more information e-mail hilal1001@sbcglobal.net

or call Hilal at 614-446-3337