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Beyond Doing (or Faith, Give This Who Man Inspiration)

from 6 Degrees Of Separation; 7 Degrees of Love (50th anniversary album) by The Baba Lovers

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The ghazal form is such a perfectly wrought balance of heart and mind, the same form may be sung as romantic lyrics or spoken as a metaphysical paradox.

Or ever, it seems, as a rap. Here, following associations set off by the railway line dissecting the path up to Meher Baba's Tomb, (and the barbed wire of a nearby army camp ) the poet wrestles with the paradox of a God Who, during Meher Baba's advent 1894-1979, willed Auschwitz while urging the human heart to sing a song of love for Him.

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My days are lost in not doing the doing I still want to do.
If love could be my un-doing, my 'not' being love could unwind.

O love, your morning is so bright, 'I love you' loses its 'I'
And 'you' in long nights of longing, my blazed Eye leading the blind...

Faith, give this Who-Man, this Whither from Maybe, inspiration.
Love’s ailing craft tardis-drones in its base like a dying swan

“Earth has been Wasted,” the Wounded King twitters, “the Grail removed
Deep into Inner Space, angels retreating from mass destruction.”

“Find me the Grail and the Earth will be Saved,” the Grail Maiden sighs,
Dying, “and I’ll be your May Queen forever.” “All else is vacuum.”

Death croaks my Name: he’ll engrave it in Hell’s grinning Gate, DEATH
THE FINAL FRONTIER. “But Love is the I’s uncreation.”

"Ego’s the aggregate of ages of ignorant action
Dying to Love," tweets a Love that evolves Involution.

“Who? who are you?” jabs your talon…“I’m Nothing, without loving
You. All I am’s what I do and can’t undo to unbecome.”

Cloaking daggers, my spying cuck-Who’s little ‘I’ is so
Deep under cover his original mission’s forgotten.

Whistles blow, “Dance off your seven-veils in a do-or-die underworld
Thrilling romance of divinest Whodunnit detection.”

“Who!!! Who!!!” as platforms are lashed into bubbles by Biblical
Rain, “Find Nirvana from Auschwitz!!!” You Whooot through the station.
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from 6 Degrees Of Separation; 7 Degrees of Love (50th anniversary album), released January 31, 2019
Gaz - voice, vocals, whistles, beats.
The lyrics combine two couplets from 'Beyond Doing' with a rapped ghazal originally published as 'The Waste Land' in the Sheriar book from which all these ghazals are taken. garethcalway.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/6-degrees-of-separation-7-degrees-of.html

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The Baba Lovers England, UK

The Baba Lovers are an Atlantic-transcending duo: English poet Gareth Calway and American singer-songwriter Gabriella Tal. The Beloved is Avatar Meher Baba, whose favourite poet was Hafiz and whose favourite poetic form the ghazal (a Persian love lyric). We met in India at the Meher Pilgrim Centre in Ahmednagar in 1994 and wrote a couple of songs. We reconnected online in 2016 and wrote an album. ... more

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