It Happens All the Time in Heaven
One of Hafiz's best-known poems, describing an intimacy between the divine and the human so constant and unremarkable that it happens all the time — like a mother's hand adjusting a child's blanket.
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Hafiz was a 14th-century Persian poet of Shiraz, whose ghazals move between the language of wine and the ache of divine longing,…
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Amir Khalighi
Amir Khalighi is the founder of Beloved Poetry. He is a poet in his own right — author of "Time Bends" and…