The language of love has no words
Listen
For God’s sake
The syntax of the heart’s longing
Is silence
Neither noun nor verb nor consonant
Why all this talk then, O Lover?
Sit and wait
Slow the heartbeat, ease the breath
Unless you become thought
Less
There is no room in you for Hu
Poetry is self-indulgence
Words a veil,
Silence, silence, silence
And the Beloved bursts forth
Everywhere
And all is Love
– Irving Karchmar, © May 2007
Darvish 
Silence, silence, silence.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Just love this poem, and the truth within it.
Thank you.
:)
Remarkable! :) … to say the least.
Self-indulgence, a veil… hmm…
True… & paradoxical.
“Poetry is self-indulgence
Words a veil,
Silence, silence, silence”
Masha’Allah. Beautifully advanced and expressed.
Mashaallah!
Good stuff mashaAllah
A delectable taste!
Yet again, another beautiful piece. Subhaanallah.
Assalamu alaikum,
Ethereal! JazakumLlahu khairan dear brother Irving…sparking a post, including:
Begin the quest
Succumb to the breath
Lift the veil!
A blaring silence
Unleashed
A deafening lucid silence
The symphonic silence of
LA ILAHA ILL ALLAH
On every breath of every atom in every time.
Dhikr, the purifier of breath.
Wassalamu alaikum
almiskeenah
Salaam Dear Brothers and Sisters:
May Allah bless you all for your kind and generous comments. And to Almiskeenah, a special thanks for her really wonderful post inspired by this poem on her blog:
http://almiskeenah.blogsome.com/2007/05/19/a-ramble-08/
Her beautiful words fill the heart and makes one conscious of each precious breath.
Ya Haqq!
Salaams Irving bhai,
Poetry is self-indulgence. Oops! I’ve been discovered! :)
More please
Abdur Rahman
yes!
I’m too busy thinking about being silent!
thank you Irving, this is beautiful.
Beautiful poem!! Thanks for sharing it with us.
This is amazingly beautiful!
Salaams Brother Irving,
Alhamdulillah! Masha’Allah, what a soul-touching reminder and a deafening call for His Dhikr in Silence!
Allah Himself has taught us the manner in which a person should remember Him:
“And do bring your Lord to remembrance in your very soul, with humility and in reverence, without loudness in words, in the mornings and evening, and be not of those who are unheedful.” The Quran(7:205)
Salaam Dear Brothers and Sisters:
Thank you for such kind and wise comments :) Abdur Bhai, your secret is safe with me :) And sf, what a beautiful additon to the poem. Alhamdulillah, that Allah has given us all we need to know to remember Him in His Holy Qur’an. And further… “I am with the one who remembers Me.”
Ya Haqq!
and all is Love indeed! What a beautiful poem – thanks for posting it.
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What a brilliant poem. I am moved and aptly reminded. Thank you for sharing and for inspiring. My favorite line is “There is no room in you for Hu.” I have a similar one too:
http://perceptionpoint.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/huwwa/
what does Hu mean?
Hu is a name of God, which means HE.
“The syntax of the heart’s longing is silence”——— Masallah! how true the word is! it remind me this line also “What can love possibly say in words?”—Barsili.
love it my dear darvish brother.
Ya Haqq!
In this silence is that we can determine his light in the darkness.
The poem is so beautifull; although it is self-indulgence but it can be really as an intruduction to the lovely silence.
Salaam dear brother Irving,
Might I use this beautiful poem for Poetry Monday next week?
Please drop me a line to let me know either way.
Thank you!
Warmly,
Baraka
Many thanks for that beautiful poem brother Irving. May you reach to Ridha of Allah inshaALLAH.
As-Salam and LoVe
GaribAN
Ameen!!!
“Unless you become thought
Less
There is no room in you for Hu”
I’m reading on thoughts now.thanks for sharing!
I love the language of love.
Silence..keep still and lessen the silence of love..
Thank you so much for this self-indulgence Irving ;-)
Patrick
brother irving,,, thanks for reminding of a silence Talk,,right now i am trying an effort to do such..is silence remains active or passive ?
Very nice poem on love.
‘Silence is the ornament of the wise and a veil for the ignorant’ -sayings of Prophet.