Peace, I’m excited to announce the release of my new book of Love poems “Cosmicity“. Proximity to this reality of Love is primordial and communal, so much so that its quest transpires in all our experiences, whether joyful or painful, its purpose is to expand us therefore I will be sharing bits of “Cosmicity” regularly in the forms that manifested during its creative process.
A big thank you for your support throughout the years~
Love rips our egos to shreds,
lo! Our hearts grow legs
to seek the company of saints,
prophets and such blessings.
2003 © Aïda Touré
Poem of the book Nocturnal Light.
There is a soft light
your forehead sheds,
every time I see it
I long for fasting and
the quiet of not-being.
2003 © Aïda Touré
Poem of the book Nocturnal Light.
I no longer know
who is who in
this transcendent dance;
are we you at this moment
or am I still myself?
(Poem excerpt from The Sublime Sphere)
© 2001 Aïda Touré
I fall from the curves
of my being to bow before You
who encompasses the sun,
the stars and the moon…
(Poem excerpt from Nocturnal Light)
© 2003 Aïda Touré
Now please,
welcome more companions
in this reunion; we’ll be
a choir to the Presence
who sheds this tender,
divine music!
(Poem excerpt from Nocturnal Light)
© 2003 Aïda Touré
Thank you to magazine OkayAfrica for honoring me as one of the 100 most influential African women of 2017~
~ The Enlightened Soul ~
Taqwah* is Queen,
Love is King
Heart is the Throne
and the Crown is
the enlightened soul~
© 2017 Aïda Touré
*Taqwah is the state of being God-conscious.
Be with the One
who makes you feel
the freest~
© 2017 Aïda Touré
In letting go,
there is a grace
that cleanses the soul~
© 2017 Aïda Touré
Surround yourself with
those whose Presence
encourages what is
noblest in you~
© 2014 Aida Toure
This innocence, we both cherish!
You put your hand on my ear
to reveal your soul’s secrets
and I succumb…
The purity of your heart spreads
as if music in my tympanums,
I lay on the floor, my centers
filled with divine laughter;
my location no longer matters
the entire world is you…
(Poem excerpt from The Sublime Sphere)
© 2001 Aïda Touré
In quietude are formed
the most ecstatic bonds,
wrap me with your palm;
I can’t stand being
that soft by myself,
envelop me in you~
(Poem excerpt from The Sublime Sphere)
© 2001 Aïda Touré
All my best wishes
of Love, Prosperity, Health
and Peace for 2017~
Outward blindness is
the gift of true lovers.
From not-seeing, a rose;
its fragrance draws us
closer to His Presence.
Many ways to the Way!
Let us say no more.
Now: the revolving.
(Poem excerpt from Nocturnal Light)
© 2003 Aïda Touré
None but you know that which
is exquisitely burning within,
I can see no smoke nor flame
but that innermost is lit!
A higher singeing unknown
to the common mortal
is tickling my limbs, lo!
There, some laughter in me;
all those who perceive it
always wind up crying.
I am ash, spread me!
I trust you and the place
your winds are taking me.
No longer lost in the self,
how softening that glory!
Now, I open my eyelids for
one last looking within us
and the galaxy is dancing,
O, this whirling in color
is conveying the Word;
all of humankind’s ears
wouldn’t suffice for this!
(Poem excerpt from Nocturnal Light)
© 2003 Aïda Touré
~ Pulled to Prayer ~
A holy love is approaching:
between your eyes, a sun,
I look shyly as it strikes me
with some gentleness that
throws me to the ground,
the humbling haven
of vertiginous minds.
Every breath taken,
the Qur’an descends again:
every surah, a blessing
the unseen and the seen recite
for our heart to be purified.
The motions of planets
are prostrations too!
The very phenomenon
of gravity weaves an
unending prayer mat for
all humanity but we understand not
such bewildering subtlety.
Shadows of men know better,
from sunset to break of dawn,
prayerful, they bow in obedience
upon the diaphanous rug.
One who has intelligence
models himself after the Prophets,
alayhum salam.
(Poem excerpt from Nocturnal Light)
© 2003 Aïda Touré
~ Purpose ~
Uncover your Purpose,
it will allow you
to explore the depths
of your soul in ways
that free you and
uplift others~
© 2016 Aïda Touré
~ One Heart ~
If your heart is aligned
with your soul’s flow,
wherever it leads,
you will follow~
© 2016 Aïda Touré
“Allah has not placed two hearts in the bosom of any man.” ~Quran 33:4
~ Open Wide Another Soul ~
Everyone has a higher self,
the breath of the Divine
subtly flowing through them,
do we honor this magnificence
and give our attention to it
instead of dwelling
on faults and mistakes?
By focusing on the best within,
we help the other to awaken
to their pulsating Essence
as well as its expression.
Is your love deep enough
to open wide another soul
while conditioning stifled it?
That would be true selfless love
for the sake of Al-Ahad.
© 2016 Aïda Touré
From your lips
to my ears, soft winds
alternate, circulate
then elated, they say:
“my love, we are mixed.
You are honey
I am milk, both
stirring in a bowl,
we feed the poor
inside, the noble
inquirer who longs
for His Paradise.”
(Poem excerpt from Nocturnal Light)
© 2003 Aïda Touré
Solely heart knows
that which I speak of,
this refined language
no tongue can touch.
O Speechless one,
how sweet is your force!
(Poem excerpt from Nocturnal Light)
© 2003 Aïda Touré
The heart loves for solely
connections are healing,
they soften the self till
it dissolves in the Unique.
(Poem excerpt from Nocturnal Light)
© 2003 Aïda Touré
~ Hussein ~
A cup from the desert’s oasis
brought to the lover’s lips,
lo! The heart sheds tears
for Hussein in his mirroring of
Rasulullah’s compassion
even in persecution~
Tonight, from every particle
in the air, escapes
the Nur of Presence!
O dear ones, let us spread
the healing blossoms that
come through Forgiveness~
© 2016 Aïda Touré
“Creatives are healers, to support them is to support the harmonization of the planet with the Divine One.”
© 2016 Aïda Touré
~ A Sacred Lover’s Voice ~
A sacred lover’s voice
is never lost!
Timelessly, it mingles
with the silver Moon
in whirlwinds only
sensitive hearts
can perceive~
Those who do hear it
always end up
with sealed lips,
soul prostrated
as a state of being!
© 2016 Aïda Touré
~ Meanders of Obscurity ~
Bismillah, know that
adversity polishes you,
it brings you at the feet
of the Beloved in a way
that shatters your false self.
Be patient my love,
your light unravels best
in the meanders of obscurity.
© 2016 Aïda Touré
My dearest one,
we learn to attach
so many conditions
to Love that when
a rare deeper Love
appears, we are lost;
not knowing what to do
with the gift since
its value is beyond all
the common, limiting
considerations we are
accustomed to; whereas Love
by its very nature expands
and thus surprises,
so how can we enjoy
its abundant virtues
if patience is absent?
The Divine grows Love
like a seed planted
with devotion in the
fertile grounds of
a disinterested Heart
that trusts what may come.
Blessed is the one
who, by wisdom, learns
to run to a sacred Love
instead of running
away from it~
© 2016 Aïda Touré
In the presence
of the Friend,
be quiet.
Should you know
of His eloquence,
assume a death:
the one which has
countless resurrections,
you know, the sunlit one!
(Poem excerpt from Nocturnal Light)
© 2003 Aïda Touré
Our most feminine energies:
yesterday, enormous longings.
Today, whirling human beings.
Tomorrow, just symphonies;
all, cloaked in this beauty.
Woman, man, the same!
(Poem excerpt from Nocturnal Light)
© 2003 Aïda Touré
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