Devotional Poetry

To the Bab

1
Door To The Kingdom of God

The door is open
the gate unlatched
faith knocks at the door of your soul.

2
The Guiding Light

The Bab, the Gate through which God's Promised One appeared,
He came to brighten the Islamic night,
Each word He spoke pulsed with Divine light.

God's Manifestation is humanity's guiding light,
Uniting all religions in God's ancient faith.
In each age a new Manifestation appears,
Dispelling the daemons of humanity's night,
Inaugurating a new dispensation; a wider unity.
Never will humanity be lef unguided,
God sends His covenant, His commandments through His Manifestations.

Let us give praise to Baha'u'llah and the Bab
In this age they are God's Manifestations,
Give praise to Baha'u'llah, the Glory of God,
He is the Promised One who came through God's Gate,
The promised on of all religions.

3
Qa'im

He who ariseth
Announced the coming of the Promised One,
Announced the arrival of Him that God would make manifest.

4
His Martyrdom

The bullets of hate
Struck both lover and the Beloved
Severed matter's cord

Two regiments fired
Their volleys of lead ball at
The suspended pair

The first cut the ropes
Later the second regiment
made the bodies one

5
May 22, 1844 A.D.
Approximately 2 Hours After Sunset

Daybreak of a New Age!
Year One of a New Era!
Worldwide Holy Day!

6
Holy Ground:
To The House of The Bab

The spirit remains,
though the building is gone;
its foundation stones stolen or lost.
The event,
which occurred here
can neither be forgotten nor undone.
The words He spoke,
and the prayers He chanted
left their impression upon the atoms,
that compose the planet itself.

7
Gate of God

O Gate of God,
Beloved of the worlds,
Thous hast opened a new age
For humanity.

8
The Bab's Orange Tree

Uprooted
chopped into firewood
and burned,

its atoms
rejoined the subatomic particles
from which they came.

Seed by seed,
its descendants
teach the Cause of God.

9
Advice on Guidance

It is better
to guide an individual soul
to the tree of Divine Unity
then to possess the world.

10
Invocation

O Primal Point, did stellar dust generate
New stars at Thy nativity? Radiant
Stars shining brightly within their stellar
Nurseries. Thine own companions shining.

O Gate of God, the darkness of dogma's night
Thy rising light did scatter, send scurrying.
Thy brightly shining star did waken
Out of a dreamless sleep men of wisdom.

11
Who is the Bab

He is Christ Returned
The Promise of God Fulfilled
Forerunner of the Glory of God

12
Unseen Sunrise

We couldn't see the sunrise for the clouds
turning scarlet against the eastern mountains,
like the blood of the Bab in the market square of Shiraz
when three rows of twenty-five rifles each
fired at the post which held Him fast
merging His body with that of His disciple's
and leaving only their faces untouched.

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14
The Trumpet Blast:
The Writings of The Bab

His words the embodiment of God's covenant,
His quill the trumpet blast
That announced the judgment day
And the return of Christ.

Tranquility encompasses the lover immersed
In the epistles from the Primal Point:
Epistles foreshadowing the Kingdom of God on Earth.

Poet's Note: ▼

These poems was written over several years. They were inspired by The Bab.