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Imagination Does Not Exist

August 17, 2012 at 3:38 pm UTC

You should come close to me tonight wayfarer
For I will be celebrating you.
Your beauty still causes me madness,
Keeps the neighbours complaining
When I start shouting in the middle of the night
Because I can’t bear all this joy.

I will be giving birth to suns.
I will be holding forests upside down
Gently shaking soft animals from trees and burrows
Into my lap.What you conceive as imagination
Does not exist for me.

Whatever you can do in a dream
Or on your mind-canvas
My hands can pull – alive – from my coat pocket.

But let’s not talk about my divine world.
For what I most want to know
Tonight is:

All about
You.

Hafiz (1325-1389)

  • http://blackwatch.tv blackwatch

    lovely

  • Gino

    Hello Eric.
    Now I’ve arranging some songs into SATB. but I’m in the learning stage, and I’m not too sure with my work. can you check my work ? and if you’re willing to rearranging my work, it’s much better, because you are a reliable arranger.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Zhaboka Aviel Mann Ballo

    Woah.

  • Dollie Krawzak

    Kind of reminds me of Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi’s poetry. It has a similar voice to it.

  • Cheeriosandchocolate

    His imagery sound to me somewhat like a 14th century version of Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka, but the language that he uses to invite intimacy is *delicious*. It’s every woman’s dream for a man to think of her in such fantastic terms.

  • Desiree Oosterberg

    beautifully visual

  • N

    So…. Why do people need imagination if
    God can come up and pull out of His pocket anything we can dream of?

  • N

    Why do some writers write about what is
    not right, and they get worldwide recognition?

  • N

    Yes… I know….Those writers will not do good at the end…. Dont tell me….I know about free will… But if we are made by you, like you, and already super proven You love us…..why people can have a sense of humor?? And if they do and they mean no harm from the bottom of their
    Hearts , but subjects are about what most people think but don’t talk about….that are funny at the end of the joke because that makes us fragile humans , even if nobody likes the adjective….. why doesnt everybody thinks
    The same way? Why am I a wayfarer if anythin I can dream of ….you have already dreamed or reviewed?

  • N

    FYI : this is 1rst time I’ve written to a
    blog. I just bumped into your virtual choire last
    night and as the daugther of the regular musical family….. Choire , sports, band, clarinet …..
    Gig! That also danced…. Some excitement was needed. I have to say that I will take my hat off… You are definitively blessed.
    Sorry if I think to loud ;-)

  • N

    Disclosure : the previous questions were placed in a figurative speech. God is Not going to be reviewing these … I just hope the same person does in case there are too many coming in at the same time. Thanks! N

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Eric Whitacre is one of the most popular and performed composers of our time, a distinguished conductor, broadcaster and public speaker. His first album as both composer and conductor on Decca/Universal, Light & Gold, won a Grammy® in 2012, reaped unanimous five star reviews and became the no. 1 classical album in the US and UK charts within a week of release... full bio

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