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THE SPECIAL LOVE
2003
BROADSIDE
Handset and Printed on Kititaka Rice Paper
by Scott King of Red Dragonfly Press
Timothy Young's version of Mohiudin
Ibn El-Arabi's 13th
Century Poem which honors the Divine Feminine:
As a full moon appears
from the night
so her face appears amid tresses.
From sorrow comes the
sense of her,
eyes shedding tears on a cheek,
like the black narcissus weeping onto
a rose.Mere beautiful women are silenced,
So overwhelming is her
fairness.
Even to think of her harms her subtlety.
Thought is too coarse for
knowing her
for her fleeting wonder eludes thinking.
If this is so, how can
such a clumsy organ
as the eye correctly see her?
She's beyond the rainbow
of seeing.
Cease these attempts. Such trying is futile.
Yet if someone seeking
her lowers his aspirations
to feel ordinary love, there are always others
Who continue through the
night,
across the sea, with eyes longing for her.
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