The Snowflake Chronicles

9th Day of Ridvan

2 Jamal 164 B.E. – Sunday, April 29, 2007

Ridvan is the 12-day period that celebrates Baha’u’llah’s declaration in Baghdad in 1863. The website commemorating this is http://www.bahainyc.org/presentations/ridvan/ridvan.swf.

Joy

The scent of roses
and the nightingales song
reverberate through the garden.

Sleepless
because of the proximity of the Beloved
the poet-seeker watches
as the Pen of God’s glory walks
the paths of paradise.

Sleepless
because of the proximity of the roses
the nightingales intone their love.

I’ll post this for reviews later today or early tomorrow. I’m not posting it for reviews now because there is, at least, one change I want to make.