Against My Own Hand

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A wry, self-aware Hafiz poem about the small ways we work against our own happiness — and the grace that meets us anyway.

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Hafiz

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…

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