Wake Up!

Would you add some colours to the Froggies?

611d

If you want to achieve your dreams, wake up!

611c

What happened then?
The owl howled and I awoke...

611b

I seized the Preaching Owl, caged him in a silver cage and began drinking...

611a

Dear Zeno, I had a pleasant dream...

Kookaburra at Cockatoo's Café

Kookaburra at Sulphur-crested Cockatoo-s Café chats with a friend while the Sea Zebras take care of his boat.

Dream

Would you add some colours to the Froggies?

610d

610c

610b

610a

Kookaburra Sails By

Wine and Sword

Will you add your Colours to the Froggies?

609d

Wine and sword I want, as in the good days
the Poet did ask with his song eternal
a mighty sword with which the owl I'll slay
wine then, to celebrate his funeral!

Melek is grateful to Giosuè Carducci (d. 1907) for lending her this mighty quatrain (our translation).

609c

Revenge to quench your thirst? We Sufis say: Love is the wine...

609b

To sit and be patient? Tsk tsk. I am thirsting for revenge...

609a

Ya Zeno! I am not going to buy your Jeweler's Doctrine...

Fun in Oz!

Kookaburra tells a story...hee hee hee!

Reminder

Please, add your Colours to the Froggies!

608d

Although, who cares for a corpse floating on its surface, when the bottom of the lake is full of jewels?

608c

Hey!
Who are you?!?
A Zen bear?
Zeno!?!

608b

If we sit by the lake long enough we might see the thief who stole your crown float by. Although...

608a

Ya Melek!
Do not waste our night catching owls!!
Be patient...

Questions and Wishes

Will Melek (Princess Angelica) catch the Owl who stole her crown?

Will Nûr (Francesca, the Princess' Maid) fall out of the Book of Poetry to a more sober state of consciousness?

Will Lâl (the Frogmouth Owl, a.k.a. Shaykh Frögüddan) come to an understanding of what Love is, and at the same time escape his dreadful destiny?

To find out these and more, the Sufi Magic Theatre invites you to its new production:

*Seeking the Shemurgh*
or *The Conference of the Frogs - Part II*

which will be out here on Monday, January the 6th, 2014 (Insha Allah)!

In the meantime: HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

See You on Monday!

See You on Monday for an End-of-the-Year Special Post!

New Year, New Names!

Will you add your Colours to the Froggies?

607d

Because if when I catch that owl I do not roast him alive, then for sure I am an Angel!!!

607c

Ya Nûr! No crown, no princess!!
From now on, call me Melek...

607b

O Princess!
Yes, it is me, and yet, it is not.
From now on, call me Nûr, as I am flooded with God's light...

607a

Tsk tsk. I know these lines.
Francesca! Is it you recycling old poems?!?
Please, come in! Please!?! Let's have a drink...

Happy Holidays!

Don't worry, we are not leaving you like this: there is one more strip before the end of this year. Please, as usual, come back on Monday!

To the Spirit of the Lake

Will you add your Colours to the Froggies?

606d

Be the sun that makes me glow
when it is Asr time, and never
never less, and seldom more.
Keep my heart in yours, forever.

606c

Be my sun, I'll be your water
not the earth to grow your seed
nor the air to increase your power
only glitter at your feet.

606b

I am the friend of your good days
so don't burden over me
but keep me enslaved. I will fly away
if you ever set me free.

606a

Be my king as I am your falcon
be the arm on which I rest
and keep the jess around my claw
because I will never build a nest.

Hee Hee Hee...Something about Humor

All educated people we are visually impaired to a higher or lower degree because education relies on words more than on observation, to the point that we are taught acronyms to help us remember things that could better be remembered through observation. A well known example is ROY G. BIV to remember the sequence of the colors of the rainbow. We memorize the sequence while we lose the ability to visualize the rainbow.

Who Is a King?

Add your colours to the Froggies!

605d

Sadly, it seems so.
Be our king! Be our king!! Be our king!!!

605c

Is it the crown that makes the king?

605b

And now all frogs are praising him! Can't you hear the croaky singing? That is a poem for the Frogs' King...

605a

Can you believe it?!? The Frogmouth Owl (Batrachostomus) stole my crown!?!

Frog Walking a Dogfish

A Stolen Crown!

Add your Colours to the Froggies!

604d

Ya Princess... Sufis work faster than you think they do!

604c

The moment is infinite!
Time is elastic!!
Shaykh is always right!!!

604b

You Frogmouth Owl preaching! How ugly is this translation!! Al-Waqt (الوقت‎) is "The Time" NOT "The Moment"!!! Too short is a moment to do any good...

604a

Rumi says: "The Sufi is the child of the moment, o kind friend" (Sufi ibn al-Waqt bashad, ay rafiq).

Thoughts under the Stars

I think... Should we buy a Sailing boat?
Yes, may be... Sailing boats are Greener...

Wind is cheaper!
And funnier!!
Hu Hu Ha!!!