Poem: I’m More Concerned

(Note: I’ve been editing a book of poems  called Shaking the Quicksilver Pool, and came across this poem written in February of 2000, and it resonates with the present real and illusorily psychic flood or earthquake or tsunami that is shaking us in so many ways, with old Father Noah invoked, navigating his way to [...]

Poem: Light of the Shadowless One

(Note: This is a poem for the Mawlid, honoring the Prophet Muhammad’s birth. In devotional poetry the honorific, “peace of Allah be upon him,” is assumed. There is another from this Mouloud collection posted on my website: www.danielmoorepoetry.com)
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LIGHT OF THE SHADOWLESS ONE
When an object casts no shadow, what does it mean?
That its light is over [...]