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Category: Poetry

Face to Face

July 1, 2020 erfanv 3 Comments

This is perhaps the most widely known of Ṭáhirih’s poems. It is a melodious and lyrical expression of love for…

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He Whom God Shall Make Manifest

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This poem, while employing some difficult terms, clearly describes the status of Bahá’u’lláh in relation to other Prophets. For while…

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The Announcement

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This one of several poems stating in utmost simplicity and clarity the concept of renewal and revelation that is the…

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A Voice of God’s Command

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In this verse the first person narrator is God the Creator speaking with authority, commanding humankind in no uncertain terms…

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GREEN LAKE, WISCONSIN

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September, 1988 Would our released prisoner be likely to covet thoseprizes or to envy the men exalted to honor andpower…

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A SENSE OF HISTORY

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 …when i find myself in Chicago and when,travelling northwards out of the city, I pass theBahai temple there, I feel…

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The Nightingale of Paradise: The Poetry of Bahá’u’lláh.

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Only one poem from this collection of the translation of the poetry of Bahá’u’lláh has as yet been published, “The…

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The Tollund Man: A Definition of the Soul

May 28, 2020 Nilufar Gordon 1 Comment

The dead man who lay there was two thousand years old. A few hours earlier he had been brought out…

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Starmount Forest Prologue

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“… I sang in my chains like the sea” I knew the world globedbut like the Hebrew children before me,thought…

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Tethered Child

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For mothers are the first educators, the first mentors; and truly it is the mothers who determine the happiness, the…

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