BY JAN HAAG

INTRODUCTION + POETRY + ESSAYS + MUSIC + TRAVEL + FICTION + TEXTILE ART





THE DEVAYANI POEMS


A selection from a vast collection of poems
based on an ancient Sufi form.





I began writing the Devayani Poems in about 1988, while living in a Korean Zen Center in Los Angeles.
Devayani is the spirtual name given to me by my Guru in 1980. It means: "Leads to God."





Above This Present, Emptiness 1-8-98

And

Before She, 1-7-98

Beside Those, 1-1-98

Between The Lines, 12-31-97

Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum

Blank Space, 12-26-97

Consider Slow Cooling

Cyberspace

Doris

Dour

Ecstasy

Frost Mourning, 01-30-00

Empty, 12-22-97

The Empty Page, 12/18/97

Entertainment

Etruscan Goddess

Every Human, 1-12-98

Father

Fed Up

Feeding Frenzy

Gifts

In A Judeo-Christian-Islamic World, 5-4-00

India

Interstellar Space, 7-5-97

Khajuraho

Lets Look At The Old Films Of India

Little, 12-25-97

Lung-gom-pas

Micro Paleontology

The Nafs, 12-26-97

Next

No Constraint, 1-14-98

Not, 12-23-97

Nothing

No Words, 1-10-98

Of Spiritual, 1-11-98

Other, 12-21-97

Palimpsest (Ecstasy)

Palimpsest I (Sphere)

Palimpsest II (Diana)

The Place Between, 1-3-98

Point of View, 7-5-97

Ranked, 1-2-98

The Roaring Silence of God, 4-3-95

Roots

Ryoanji

Said, 1-4-98

Silence

Solstice, 12-21-97

Steady Drizzle

Two Tomatoes

Sun

Then, 12-20-97

The Woman Who Had No Necklaces

Work, 12-24-97

Yesterday, 2-10-98








Copyright © 2000 Jan Haag
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Jan Haag may be reached via e-mail: jhaag@u.washington.edu





BY JAN HAAG


POETRY + MUSIC + ESSAYS + TRAVEL + FICTION + TEXTILE ART

INTRODUCTION + HAAG'S BIO



21st CENTURY ART, C.E. - B.C., A Context