I Saw You Dancing — Hafiz Poem | The Hafiz Series

The power of dance is the subject in my reading and scoring of 'I Saw You Dancing', a selection from 'The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz' by Daniel Ladinsky, copyright 1996, 2003 with permission.

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I saw you dancing. I saw you. Dancing last night. On the roof of your house. All alone. I felt your heart longing for the friend. I saw you whirling beneath the soft, Bright rose that hung from an invisible stem in the sky. So I began to change into my best clothes in hopes of joining you even though I live a thousand miles away. And if you had spun like an immaculate sphere just two more times. . . And bowed again so sweetly to the east, You would have found God and me standing so near. And lifting you into our arms. I saw you. Dancing last night. Near the roof of this world, Hafiz feels your soul in mine. Carly? For our beloved. You