Fal Hafez

Poem Number 456

In the spring, open your heart...

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The ghazal

In the spring, open your heart to joyous infusions

Like flowers open up, or stay in muddy collusions.

I cannot tell you to befriend this, or drink that

Wit and wisdom display your own solutions.

Strings of the harp sing out the same advice

When worthy, you will reach your conclusions.

Each blade of grass speaks of its life's tale

Alas if self-absorbed you're free from inclusions.

Worry not, else you will lose your precious now

If stuck in day's and night's revolutions.

Though fears are strewn upon the path of Love

Pass easy if free from destination's confusions.

O Hafiz, if fortune upon you smiles

Become prey to that Witness of illusions.

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About this ghazal

About this ghazal: In the spring, open your heart...

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